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Fog Flyby
Fog Flyby
giantmike


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Challenge: Fool the Viewer II (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Date: Sep 2, 2013
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/800
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2013

 This was more fun than I expected. When I first saw it, I was disappointed as I don't have much expert editing skills So I too this image of a tree in the fog and made it look like expert, but used advanced editing. I wasn't very happy with it.

So I went back to the drawing board. The three frames before the main on here included a bird flying from the tree. I took that bird and moved him to the left of the tree, and expanded his size significantly. Then I blended the layers a bit to make it look like the bird was in the fog (and to help hide my terrible masking skills).

I then was mostly happy, but didn't like the tree edit. So I started over with that, and came out with something that looked much more natural, with good pop. I replaced my background layer, and this image was born.

I bet if I asked 100 people on the street, 99 of them would think this was just a photo. Very few would inspect closely enough to see that the birds were added later.

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Place: 27 out of 43
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09/12/2013 05:09:50 PM
Real
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 09/09/2013 01:09:59 PM
Very beautiful image.
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 09/07/2013 04:50:59 AM
Such a soothing and tranquil scene. Fooling me into believing there are places such as this in the world
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 09/06/2013 12:43:19 PM
nice image. I think the birds are imagined
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 09/06/2013 01:32:06 AM
I want to sit under that tree. Unless it's filled with birds.
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