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Mountain Pass
Mountain Pass
mtreit


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Challenge: December Free Study (Advanced Editing I*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Near Stevens Pass, WA
Date: Dec 29, 2003
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: Auto
Shutter: 1/2004
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Dec 30, 2003

 This was shot from a moving car at 30 or 40 MPH while heading up to the mountains to go skiing.

I couldn't resist rolling down the window and snapping some shots of the scenery. I cranked up the shutter speed to try and compensate for the motion and snapped away.

When I went through the pictures later, I was surprised to see that I got a few decent looking shots.

I made the following edits in photoshop (taking advantage of the special December rules):

Adjusted the sky and mountains separately using layers.

Adjusted levels, curves, color balance and brightness / contrast.

Used Gaussian blur to smooth out the gradient in the sky.

Used the "Photo Filter" adjustment to add a warmer tone to the interior of the mountains.

Added a white border using the "stroke" command.

Resized from 1600x1200 to 640x480.

Sharpened with unsharp mask.

Statistics
Place: 81 out of 193
Avg (all users): 5.8299
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7563
Avg (non-participants): 5.9467
Views since voting: 883
Votes: 194
Comments: 5
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/13/2004 11:22:52 PM
I like the arrangement 7
 01/12/2004 12:24:35 AM
Great coloration in the sky!
 01/08/2004 08:46:40 PM
Just an all around good photo and I like it. I bet this looks really good uncompressed and at full size. Very clean, well composed and I think you waited for the good light.

I'm torn on score because it is a bit simple. 8?
 01/03/2004 02:58:24 PM
too much sky. I would already know it's blue with 1/3 of it. Law of 1/3's.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/03/2004 01:26:57 PM
The resolution is excellent here, even with the 640x480 crop. I like the blue tones in the sky, but the time of day also casts more shadow on your scene. I would prefer a bit more light in the valleys, but it is also nice the way it is. Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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