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Challenge: The Four Elements II (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Challenges 2007
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Hochheim, Germany
Date: May 27, 2007
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/500
Date Uploaded: May 27, 2007
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Darn freakin' challenge... I shot all sorts of stuff for this challenge - if you only knew! I've coined the term NCW for what I do - "nothing challenge-worthy". I had a lot of NCW stuff. This here be the last resort.
We had a nice thunderstorm come in overnight, which thankfully cooled things off a bit. Had a bit of early sunshine, sorta, through breaks in the clouds, so I rode out along the vineyards and took pictures. The original of this one is very dark - tried to avoid blowing out the sky (had several where I failed in that respect). Tonemapped the RAW image, opened in PS, and did all sorts of stuff to it. Levels, selective color, cropped, uncropped, recropped (it's a long story), sharpened more than once, resized, and I don't know what all else. Oh, a bit of dodging and burning for the practice - not a whole lot. Cloned out part of a rock. Added a slight gradient to the sky. Eventually chose a version and saved for web. All this for a probably 5.2. :-) |
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06/27/2007 09:55:28 PM |
| gorgeous, looks like it never ends...you are showing us so much of the country there, its a treat |
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06/12/2007 04:35:43 PM |
| Well, you did better than you predicted! :) This kind of vista begs for bright saturation of colors and you delivered - very nice. |
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06/04/2007 05:59:44 PM |
Oh, I love this photo, Deb. It brings back so many memories of living in Germany. We had a field exactly like this right behind our house on post where we lived. Very nostalgic for me. This could BE it!
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06/04/2007 01:58:19 PM |
| Lovely bright colours, and the light and shadows work really well in the shot. I wouldn't say NCW, I'd be pretty happy if this was my shot :) |
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06/04/2007 01:09:05 PM |
| Very pretty - I love the vivid colors. |
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06/04/2007 12:39:26 AM |
| With so much going on in your life at present, you are allowed to become NCW, you beat your estimation, my experience working with leaves is always use a highlight/shadow, even if you don't use it, I have to go back about another 100 to find mine... |
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06/02/2007 02:22:13 PM |
| It's hard to tell what's being photographed. Not a lot of detail, pretty sky. |
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06/01/2007 04:42:30 PM |
| Very jagged image. All detail is really lost in the pixilization. Not sure how to clear it up. It just happens sometimes on images. |
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05/30/2007 02:39:51 PM |
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05/29/2007 11:26:31 AM |
| Looks a bit over sharpened ad the grape vines look as if they were painted. Overall I believe the picture is a bit bright. |
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05/29/2007 01:30:40 AM |
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05/28/2007 05:20:24 PM |
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