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Palms and Cypress
Palms and Cypress
MelonMusketeer


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Challenge: Trees IV (Minimal Editing I)
Camera: Nikon D7000
Location: Sunniland Florida
Date: Oct 14, 2012
Aperture: 10
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Rural, Floral
Date Uploaded: Oct 14, 2012

 Shot just before sunset, when the sun was lighting up the cypress in the background and the sky was not so bright.
The flowers are wild "South Eastern Sunflowers".
Shot from a ladder using monopod and no filter.
18-105 @ 21 mm.
DSC 7223
Post Challenge; Thank you everyone for the votes and comments.
Had I remembered that this was going to possibly be in a minimal editing challenge, I would have boosted the color and contrast a little in camera.
I was shooting with a monopod, and on top of a 10 ft folding ladder at sunset, so the 1/100th sec shutter speed dinged the sharpness a little. Comment well taken about sharpening more than one time during resizing.
I didn't expect it to do this well in the challenge, but put it in to share the nice landscape with everyone.
One other thing about this. Mosquitos were thicker than the flowers when I was shooting this, and we didn't bring any repellent.

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Place: 37 out of 125
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Votes: 121
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/20/2012 10:57:58 PM
Well composed
I would like to see it a wee bit more sharp
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 10/20/2012 10:21:26 PM
and lovely flower field!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2012 09:41:22 PM
Voted earlier coming back to comment.

I'll take a wild guess but this looks like the Everglades if I'm not mistaken. I the near palms and then the cypress trees over yonder. In between is a whole field of bright and beautiful yellow flowers. I do have some suggestion or critiques you may or may not agree with. First, I think that it would add a little more visual impact and a feel of height of those trees if you shot this at a lower angle. It appears as if it was taken at height level. Second, you are allowed to sharpen more than once in minimal - taking a large file size and shrinking it down in one stop loses alot of sharp and lovely detail which I am sure that the large scale photo has. Lastly, there seems to be some dramatic light on the cypress trees way in back. If time allowed, I wonder if you could have waited or timed the light to illuminate the field and trees in such a fashion to get some more dramatic tones in light and shadow. Mother Nature doesn't always co-operate but sometimes if you wait you do get rewarded and other times not.
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 10/15/2012 11:57:10 AM
Odd. I've never seen palm trees out in a setting like this!
Like the shot.
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