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Challenge: Calendar (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: Landscapes
Camera: Sony DSC-F828
Location: Millville, Utah USA
Date: Nov 3, 2004
Aperture: f 8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Nov 3, 2004

 The Wellsville Mountains again. These must be my favorite mountains; I see them when I leave my house every morning. When they are doing lovely things, it is very difficult to not grab the camera instead of go to work.

I'll admit to doing quite a lot of Photoshop to this photo. The trees weren't so yellow in the photo, though they seemed to be in real life. I exposed for an average between sky and mountains and trees, so nothing was as dynamic as it was in real life. I also darkened it a bit. Since I'm colorblind and without my wife, I have no idea if my colors are correct after applying things like contrast, which always does weird things to colors. But I like it.

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 190
Avg (all users): 6.6927
Avg (commenters): 7.6000
Avg (participants): 6.3578
Avg (non-participants): 7.0729
Views since voting: 1618
Views during voting: 341
Votes: 205
Comments: 33
Favorites: 8 (view)

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 11/15/2004 02:18:23 PM
A great foreground, middle ground and what a sky, gasp! Congratulations on your top 20th finish.
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 11/15/2004 12:46:09 AM
If this isn't a classic calendar shot then nothing is.
Congrats on a top twenty finsh!
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 11/15/2004 12:16:34 AM
Wow, I guessed right. Awsome shot. I expected to see this a bit higher, but this ain't too bad.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/14/2004 07:49:49 PM
This is simply wonderful. 9
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 11/14/2004 05:35:03 PM
This looks like a dsidwell shot, but I could easily be wrong.
Lovely shot! Excellent lighting and composition, this should be in the top 5 of this challenge, stunning.
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 11/13/2004 11:43:22 PM
There is way too much sky and is very uninteresting. The colors are way too blown out.
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 11/13/2004 09:38:51 PM
Stunning color level & composition.
Perfect take on the challenge!
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 11/13/2004 06:41:46 PM
WOW! Beautiful.
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 11/12/2004 11:34:19 PM
Composition is great, foreground is a little dark, very nice work.
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 11/12/2004 09:21:56 PM
I loved the color in this shot. The huge expanse of sky makes even the mountains look surmountable - gives an overall feeling of hope and tranquility. Nice job!
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 11/12/2004 05:02:01 PM
Very good use of negative space, I like this photo. It could be useful for many printed materials like business cards.
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 11/12/2004 02:22:09 PM
Good use of negative space. I think it works. 8
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 11/11/2004 11:35:56 PM
The colors are absolutely wonderful. Too much negative space for my tastes, however. 6
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 11/11/2004 06:15:08 PM
beautiful
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 11/11/2004 03:00:58 PM
very good , came back for another look and raised my score
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 11/11/2004 10:20:09 AM
your color play is, to say the least, magnificent.
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 11/10/2004 09:31:02 PM
Outstanding
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 11/10/2004 02:31:27 PM
Starkly, succulently superlative. Special!
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 11/09/2004 11:04:13 PM
Maybe a little too much blue on top IMO. Love the green of the trees and the white stripes in the mountains. Makes me want to visit.
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 11/09/2004 07:01:03 PM
I like the big blue sky and the balance between the elements.
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 11/09/2004 06:46:00 PM
Why April?
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 11/09/2004 06:40:40 PM
Beautiful, crisp, deeply saturated - great use of negative space (which I am usually tired of in this type of use). 9.
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 11/09/2004 03:34:44 PM
Nice contrast between the snow and the trees.
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 11/09/2004 02:13:43 AM
By the scoring so far, I think my shot may medal in this challenge. However, if it loses to this one I won't be surprised in the least. Beautiful. The only fault I have with it is the uneven sky from the (I'm guessing here) wide-angle lens and polarizer. With my 17-40 and the polarizer I sometimes play with the individual colour saturation in the RAW conversion to minimise this. Nevertheless, awesome. 10.
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 11/09/2004 02:04:51 AM
Excellent use of negative space giving the mountains a more "groudned" feel linking htem beautifully with the trees at earth level. Excellent exposure imo, perhaps a little too sharp on the mountains given their distance. Lovely.
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 11/08/2004 11:48:28 PM
Wonderful graphic feel to this one. One of my top choices.
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 11/08/2004 03:09:58 PM
Image critique: simply refreshing and beautifully composed. Very well shot with rich colour and dynamism. You'll be up at the top with this.

Out-of-challenge appeal: max - in my faves now.
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 11/08/2004 12:56:40 PM
purty...just purty
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 11/08/2004 12:18:44 PM
are they all going to be 10s in this challenge?
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 11/08/2004 10:01:10 AM
beautiful and very fitting to the challenge - well done
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 11/08/2004 07:40:21 AM
Somehow reminds me of the misty mountains in Lord of the rings. Is this perhaps New Zealand? Anyway love the shot but the sky is a bit too blue for my taste.
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 11/08/2004 01:08:40 AM
Too much negative space that doesn't seem to serve a purpose and you have some wierd color banding in your sky...
TC
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 11/08/2004 12:34:51 AM
A bit too much sky for my taste. Possible you could have cropped out a good bit of that sky and maybe utilized the rule of thirds. Looks great though when I scroll down some :-) great shot!
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