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Golden Giant
Golden Giant
giantmike


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Foliage II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM
Location: Verona, WI
Date: Oct 26, 2011
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/800-1/50
Galleries: Nature, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Oct 26, 2011

 This wonderful pillar of a tree live only a few blocks from me. It's really quite cool how it towers above everything around it, even the nearby buildings (now that the tall one has been demolished). What's really cool is how it waited until most of the other trees around had lost their colors to really shine, and light up the landscape.

Post Processing
* Chromatic Aberration
* Combine 3 exposures in Nik HDR Efex Pro
* Remove lens vignette and some blurred foreground grass blades
* Increase exposure
* Decrease brightness
* Decrease contrast
* Increase saturation and vibrancy
* S-curve
* Highlights
* Increase red/orange saturation
* Decrease blue/green/purple saturation
* Desaturate clouds
* Topaz DeNoise
* Decrease brightness
* Highlights and shadows
* Slight vignette
* Halo reduction around tree and background trees
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

Statistics
Place: 55 out of 161
Avg (all users): 5.9068
Avg (commenters): 7.3333
Avg (participants): 5.8065
Avg (non-participants): 6.0179
Views since voting: 453
Views during voting: 220
Votes: 118
Comments: 3
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/08/2011 06:22:39 PM
What a magnificent tree!
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 11/07/2011 02:46:10 PM
Great image. Love the very low horizon with the all sky background and shape of the large tree. Also the way the large tree dwarf's all the other little trees.
Very unusual. 8
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 11/07/2011 02:17:19 PM
Nice color and composition, Love those OLD Giants!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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