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Beatiful One Day Perfect The Next
Beatiful One Day Perfect The Next
BrianR


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Hervey Bay. Australia
Date: Jul 21, 2006
Aperture: 9.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Sky, Panoramic
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2006

 Beautiful One Day Perfect The Next

Couldn’t find any gold in the ground, or golden haired beauties wanting to model for me, (This Isn’t Iceland. Ha Ha) so picked on mother nature to produce some gold, and join the battle in the sky.


Photo Shop.

Removed Small distracting crane, and power pole on horizon.
Color balance
NI x 3
Brightness/Contrast
Sharpen
Minor Dodge & Burn
Border
Save to web

Quality raw. IMG 5571 CR2

Shooting Date/Time
7/22/2006 6:52:05 AM
Shooting Mode
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/125
Av( Aperture Value )
9.5
Metering Mode
Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
100
Lens
18.0 - 55.0mm
Focal Length
18.0mm

Statistics
Place: 104 out of 296
Avg (all users): 5.5078
Avg (commenters): 7.1667
Avg (participants): 5.3304
Avg (non-participants): 5.7692
Views since voting: 942
Views during voting: 282
Votes: 193
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/31/2006 02:33:43 AM
I really think this was a favorite of mine, as I just loved that sky, as we have some magic skies here in Australia.....
I dream of skies like this, and we are so fortunite to wake up and see them often, or look at, as the sun fades in the evening, to see them all again.....
I just love the Australian golden colors, we see so much everywhere we look.....

Message edited by author 2006-07-31 02:34:33.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/27/2006 01:15:34 AM
there is some distracting color banding going on in the sky - at least on my monitor
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2006 10:54:18 AM
this is very stunning! I definitely predict a ribbon here! 10!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2006 07:14:30 AM
One of the really lovely golden clouds/sky images in the challenge.....
The golden glow is just stunning and the thumbnail just "pops".....
I do hope it does well in the challenge.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 06:57:38 PM
perfect gold
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 11:00:22 AM
Beautiful golden sunset. The sun rays coming out of the clouds add so much drama to this. Great job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 10:10:12 AM
There's some color banding going on here (watch the colors as they circle outward towards the edges). Most likely the image is shot in jpeg mode and then individual colors (rather than all colors) were boosted in a hue/sat layer (or equivalent).

Ways to fight banding: 1) Shoot in raw, edit in 16-bit mode, 2) boost all colors (or at least adjacent colors, e.g. both blue & cyan together), 3) don't boost the color so much, 4) sometimes NeatImage (or equivalent) can cause it, so watch the color output, 5) sometimes reducing the image size for web can cause it (best bet is PhotoShop's "Save for Web").

Hope the tips help...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 12:54:48 AM
Great Job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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