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Red Sky at Night Sailors' Delight
Red Sky at Night Sailors' Delight
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Landscape in Portrait Orientation (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Harris Reservoir
Date: Oct 28, 2006
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Sky, Water
Date Uploaded: Oct 29, 2006

 Headed home from an evening of fishing and many tries at capturing the beautiful sunset, I shot this last shot.

Increased exposure, brightness, cropped, minor changes to tint, unsharpen mask.

Statistics
Place: 270 out of 308
Avg (all users): 4.4722
Avg (commenters): 3.4231
Avg (participants): 4.0897
Avg (non-participants): 4.6884
Views since voting: 914
Views during voting: 349
Votes: 216
Comments: 28
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 03/31/2008 04:30:46 PM
Me.... I liked it!! Dont care for out of focus and P) blurry. Well done man. Its like my dreams!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/07/2006 05:41:04 PM
Nice idea and good color, but it is noisy and blurry.
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 11/07/2006 12:59:08 PM
Way too blurry.
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 11/07/2006 11:42:50 AM
a little blurry
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 11/06/2006 03:21:31 PM
The thumbnail for this is beautiful, and it would probably score really well if it were sharper. In low light photography like this, it really helps to have a tripod, or at least set the camera on something solid.
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 11/06/2006 07:40:07 AM
Back to comment: This image looks a bit out of focus. This could be from hand holding the camera during a long exposure or you may need to sharpen more after down sizing the image for a challenge. Most people use Unsharp Mask to bring back the sharpness lost because of down sizing. I would have cropped this image a bit tighter to get rid of the partial tree on the left edge and to remove the bright light on the right edge.
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 11/05/2006 10:05:41 PM
Nice colors. Would like to see a sharper focus.
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 11/05/2006 04:52:24 PM
great concept. too out of focus for me though.
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 11/05/2006 12:09:44 PM
Nice tones and an reasonable composition. It looks to be blurred due to camera shake though. The grainy (noisy) texture suggests that this was a long exposure and a tripod or other convenient support would have helped to eliminate the camera shake. Sometimes with longer exposures and the chance of camera shake it is a good idea to take several identical pictures and pick the sharpest one later.
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 11/04/2006 09:37:02 PM
Hand shake?
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 11/04/2006 09:23:00 PM
Great picture, maybe crop a little tighter on the building, sharpen up a bit, excellent exposure.
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 11/04/2006 10:43:11 AM
out of focus?
 11/03/2006 07:14:31 PM
quite blurry ... sorry :-(
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 11/03/2006 10:36:03 AM
interesting blurry effect. I like it.
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 11/03/2006 07:57:45 AM
i like the scene but it is a shame the image is out of focus...
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 11/02/2006 10:43:08 PM
Nice colors and composition. A crisper focus would have made this even better!
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 11/02/2006 10:01:57 PM
Sorry...just not in focus.
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 11/02/2006 03:00:46 PM
Out of focus
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 11/02/2006 11:50:58 AM
Not sure about the out of focus, nor the noise, but the color and composition are nice
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 11/01/2006 09:00:35 PM
Looks kind of grainy and somewhat OOF.
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 11/01/2006 07:30:30 PM
To pixelated and overly blured for me. Nice scene regardless.
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 11/01/2006 04:10:34 PM
Voting low because nothing is in focus here.
 11/01/2006 03:10:11 PM
Like the composition, lacking in quality - was the blur intentional? I would prefer to see this in better focus, personally. 5
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 11/01/2006 12:49:09 PM
good color and nice composition. However, the grain and focus is problematic.
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 11/01/2006 10:45:14 AM
Your composition and colors are great. Unfortunately it looks a little blurry. I'm guessing you hand-held this and given the long shutter speed, you got some camera shake. Try this again with either a tripod or some other way of supporting the camera and you would have a very good shot.
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 11/01/2006 10:33:30 AM
Not very sharp not sure of the intent but photo would have been better if it was tac sharp
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 11/01/2006 08:55:01 AM
oh, might have been just perfect.. too bad it is blurry.. still good!
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 11/01/2006 06:56:36 AM
there is noise in the image. perhaps noise for under exposure.
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