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Refraction - Fire in the Sky
Refraction - Fire in the Sky
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Light (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: My back yard!
Date: Jan 25, 2005
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/20
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Jan 25, 2005

 OH man...the sky was like this for probably about 4 minutes at the most. I noticed it while I was sitting at a red light about 3 and a half minutes from my home -- so I hurried home to grab my camera, hoping I wouldn't get ticket.

I ran inside, grabbed my camera and took about 15 shots as I panned the horizon behind my house. As I shot, the sky became less and less interesting with every passing second (noticeably too).

This is the first one I took because with every second, it lost a lot of interest and detail.

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Post Processing: Well, unfortunately I'm not an expert at skies or else this would probably look more like heida's work and maybe even be a top 10.

The only real thing I did was curves, crop & resize, then add the border. I dodged out a couple stray lights on the hillside from the houses that had their porch lights on.

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I think this photo should do pretty good but I've been very wrong in the past -- I think it lost a lot in making it 640 pixels and of course I broke the rule of thirds a bit -- but we'll see what happens.

Statistics
Place: 67 out of 266
Avg (all users): 5.8028
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.6207
Avg (non-participants): 6.0098
Views since voting: 863
Views during voting: 284
Votes: 218
Comments: 8
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/07/2005 01:30:59 AM
Hey! Nice to see you're behind this beautiful shot, I'm really happy for you, and a bit envious too. That was one of my favorite shots, it should have been higher. Congradulation man! You are really improving. You love shooting, it shows and it pays off. Good luck with your next ones!

-Simon

P.S. Try to get a band to use this as an album cover. Even if you would have to crop out the left part to square it, it would still look great.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 12:02:19 AM
thanks for all the comments
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2005 11:23:37 PM
This is such a wonderful sunset! However, I only see three colors: pink, grey, and black. Try to capture more hues and values in sunsets, then it will bring out more detail in your photo, such as making the clouds pop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/05/2005 07:40:59 PM
this sky deserved a better foreground
hell of a sky though
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/04/2005 01:53:49 PM
Wow, that's an amazing shot! Great!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2005 08:18:52 PM
Beautiful. One of the best so far.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2005 06:05:40 PM
WOW!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2005 01:46:36 AM
I love the immensity of the sky. The thin horizon line looks crushed by the it. Faboulous patterns in the clouds. I don't know why, but when I saw this picture, I thought of an old vinyl record sleeves, those that folded. Really cool.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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