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Challenge: The Four Elements (Advanced Editing I)
Collection: Windmills
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Between Schermerhorn and Ursem, The Netherlands
Date: Feb 14, 2004
Aperture: F4
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/315s
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Feb 14, 2004

 This is a kind of follow-up on my battle of the elements photo I took a year ago for the Landscapes challenge at that time.

These windmills are not used for grinding stuff. No they keep our Dutch earth dry by using the force of the wind to pump up the water. They pump it from the lower lands (polders) into a ringcanal (ringvaart). Another mill dumps the ring canal water into the sea or a lake. The water you see in the front leads to that canal. This type of windmills can be found near the old dikes.They are scarce, but some still do their job. Electric mills are the business nowadays.

There are two flaws in this image in my opinion:
1)Time of the day: Between 11.00-13.00. BAAAAAAAaaaddddd, but that was the timeframe in which I had time to do something. :(
Result: 2 to 3 stops of dynamic range in flat lighting, instead of 5+ stops.
2) Lack of motion blur. The front mill is in operation, but the freezing of the wings does not tell that. Problem: avoiding camera shake with high shutter speed

Camera lens position was app 70mm in 35mm lingo.

Photoshop work:
* Cropped
* Chroma noise reduction
* levels
* Brightened foreground with a 40% screen layer on the dark parts
* took out the headlights of a car
* Digital Velvia setting 1
* Sharpened
* Save for the web


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 09/11/2005 11:01:30 AM
As we don't have these in the United States, windmills hold a particular interest for me. This is probably my favorite of your group of them. The misty landscape with the red of the mill against the deep green grass is stunning and evokes a sense of wanderlust. The sheep really cap it off for me!! SUch a lovely capture.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/22/2004 06:58:26 PM
... at least for now.
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 02/22/2004 01:00:19 PM
What a wonderfil photo. Great colors, with a real soft feel because of the fog. Terrific one !
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 02/21/2004 08:33:21 PM
Beautiful, love the mist the fogs the background in the distance. well done. 8
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 02/21/2004 06:44:43 PM
Nice color, tones, and composition. Great job, good luck!
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 02/20/2004 06:42:25 PM
I really like how calming this photo is. It makes me wnt to be there.
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 02/20/2004 10:38:43 AM
This is a beautiful landscape that conjures up memories of an earlier era. I really like the fog obscuring the other windmills and the sheep. The colors are really outstanding.
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 02/19/2004 11:25:47 AM
And you folks get a lot of both wind and water... Lovely soft photograph with the bit of red adding the needed emphasis.
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 02/19/2004 10:08:34 AM
very nice but a little more contrast might have made it even better
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 02/18/2004 09:09:08 AM
Very cool picture, i can tell it is somewhere in Europe. Lucky you!
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 02/17/2004 11:42:48 PM
Your not in Kansas are you? LOL Just wonderful colors. I even like the foggy mist. Looks like an Oregon day. Good entry, I hope you do well.
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 02/17/2004 09:13:01 PM
Great shot. I spent a year in Holland in 1964. Still love the windmills. I like that you caught the sails unfurled and working. 8
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 02/17/2004 04:04:18 PM
just beautiful. this should be on a postcard.
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 02/17/2004 01:34:00 AM
great shot. i love the misty fog and the rich green grass.
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 02/16/2004 07:34:41 PM
As long as the dikes hold..... nice colors.
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 02/16/2004 05:36:28 PM
Moody shot with a touch of water (no sense of actual wind but no points deducted), color pallet is pleasing and calm. On of my picks for a ribbon
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 02/16/2004 11:03:53 AM
Lovely shot the green grass, foggy horizon the sheep, hay, fence all of it paint such wonderful scene. Looks like holland?
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 02/16/2004 10:24:43 AM
Lovely photo. The soft tones add to the peacefulness of this image.
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 02/16/2004 01:00:23 AM
holland?
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 02/16/2004 12:37:45 AM
Great Idea, although im not sure all people in the challenge will understand it.
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