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Day 7: M Mountain
Day 7: M Mountain
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Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: Socorro, New Mexico
Date: Jul 7, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Jul 8, 2007

Viewed: 385
Comments: 12
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 Sorry, I fell off of the wagon and reverted to a non-square crop for this one :-) As it is this is just a small slice of a 180 deg HDR panorama. We had such great clouds lined up along the mountains I just couldn't resist.

Clouds are actually my favorite subject to photograph (next to cats); I send several images in every month to one of the weather guys who shows them in his weather report on our local CBS affiliate channel. I particularly love cloud images now that I work with HDRI; the detail one can produce in an HDR image rivals that which we can see with our eyes. I find it very disappointing that true HDRI (composed of multiple images) is not legal here on this site except in Expert Editing, which does not occur often.

I tried something a bit different with this image. It is HDR composed of 6 exposures per panel (so actually 30, since it is part of a panorama). After the usual levels adjustment I added a touch of gaussian blur and mostly desaturated it. I'm not so sure I like it, might be kind of dull and flat? I'd love get opinions!

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 07/18/2007 06:09:25 PM
beautiful I love this shot the sky and mountains work together so nice.
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 07/09/2007 03:45:47 PM
I love this shot, and I agree, the clouds are amazing! I think the de-sat really added to it & brought out the detail of the mountain & clouds.
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 07/09/2007 11:18:15 AM
Fantastic job on the processing and it's certainly nowhere near dull and flat. This makes me want to see a big version of it. I like the way the clouds play off the brush in the foreground; they are almost 3D.
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 07/09/2007 10:07:01 AM
Yeah, this is soooo dull and flat. LOL
It's absolutely stunning!! I love the almost washed out look. And the clouds, the clouds are gorgeous! I'm so glad you didn't use a square crop, that would certainly wouldn't have done this justice.
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 07/09/2007 07:15:00 AM
I think it turned out REALLY neat! The clouds are awesome! I think the desaturation gives it a dreamy kind of look. Looks like it could be the setting for an old country western movie! Great shot!!
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 07/09/2007 02:31:27 AM
What detail in the clouds. The color scheme is different, but I like it.
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 07/08/2007 11:42:41 PM
i think its lovely! i half expect to see butch and sundance come riding in from around the bend! awesome.
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 07/08/2007 10:19:36 PM
I love the depth and dimension of the clouds. There is some kind of blusih gray cast to the whole thing that almost gives it a surreal look. What's nice about that is it takes away that dry desert feeling. Really cool photo!
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 07/08/2007 10:11:27 PM
Well, of course! This is SO gorgeous!
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 07/08/2007 05:20:59 PM
Those are indeed nice clouds. I think we can forgive the "non-square" for this.
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 07/08/2007 03:39:42 PM
like this was ever going to be a square crop!!?? lol lol .. wot an amazing scene and an excellent panorama .. i find that i'd be wanting to sharpen up the mountains, for instance, and possibly the grass and leaving that beautiful softness in the clouds .. but in some ways the gaussian blur has added a sort'v interesting texture or feeling to this wonderful image, which is a different treatment to the usual sharpening that we all seem to do most of the time .. i'm as guilty as anything for that!! .. i really really like the slightly desaturated look .. it totally works for this in my opinion .. :) .. the sky is awesome, not only the clouds but the very intense dark blue/grey .. did you have a polariser on for this shot??..
i'm an insane lucisart addict and there's no way i could have this in photoshop without running it thru a lucisart treatment .. its such a shame that i cant use it in a basic edit challenge ..!! :)
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 07/08/2007 11:26:08 AM
Love this! Very surreal and otherworldly. And I totally want to be there. This would look great in huge on a wall!
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