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Day-10-Industrial-Disease.jpg
Day-10-Industrial-Disease.jpg
Ken


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Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
Location: Michigan City, IN
Date: Dec 10, 2007
Aperture: F/13
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/6, 0.3, 0.6
Galleries: Science and Technology, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Dec 11, 2007

Viewed: 1317
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

 The sun came out today so as soon as the girls came home from school we drove out to the beach to take pictures of the sunset. I took shots of the girls with their cameras and found it amusing that Cartesia was trying get Taylor to smile for the camera. But I wasn't paying attention to my settings so I blew the "3 yr old photographer" shot.

I went down by the marina and noticed how the haze was blowing over the nice sunset. That reflection also caught my eye since it's usually not this calm. The title is from the Dire Straits song but it fits perfectly here. For the life of me I cannot understand why we're burning railcar after railcar of coal instead of harvesting the wind or sun. Evidently there isn't enough profit in protecting our planet.

In my processing I tried to enhance the pollution while keeping the beauty of the sunset. HDR on 3 shots, lots of color adjustments, dodging/burning, etc. I also fixed the perspective from using the wide lens. I used Genuine Fractals to resize at a higher than normal resolution (as an experiment to see how much detail is retained).

Let it be known that I did not use Fractalius on this picture.

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 12/16/2007 10:08:06 AM
Incredible! This is so sharp and clear. Great Capture!
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 12/12/2007 05:33:36 PM
I like the smoke reflected in the water and then how it ripples across the sky like the snow in the foreground. Strong lines.
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 12/12/2007 05:13:12 PM
That looks really neat, I like the bursts of color against the cool blue & grey tones.
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 12/12/2007 08:27:13 AM
Dude, this is AWESOME!!! What a clean image! It seems to me that all to often HDR shots get muddied in the details, and this just is NOT!!! Beautiful!!!!
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 12/11/2007 10:53:59 PM
Awesome image!
I like the steam cloud with the breaks in it looking like indian smoke signals in the old west, and the reflection in the water is just superb. Great image all over.
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 12/11/2007 05:34:22 PM
Love your title!!! This is a wonderful photo, great reflections.
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 12/11/2007 02:07:04 PM
Dear God! That's beautiful - in a sick kind of way, of course. Stunning, Ken.
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 12/11/2007 11:48:50 AM
Beyond me w pp.. Visual effect came out extremely nice.. Really depicts pollution portraying a good message. Like the frozen sand most of all love the sky and reflections..
Smooth!!
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 12/11/2007 08:28:32 AM
Boy , you sure know how to edit...learn a lot by reading what you do- thanx ! Gorgeous sky and what "punch" this has - nature vs pollution- wow !
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 12/11/2007 05:10:34 AM
as a thumb i thought .. OMG he hasnt used fractalius !!!
as soon as it opened i thought i detected a subtle hint of lucisart .. but it appears i was wrong . this is a totally brilliant photograph and an excellent process .. i dont think fractalius would have enhanced this at all, like i reckon it did on a couple of your other ones and amanda's colourful one .. i'd be thinking this would go down extremely well in a free study .. but i've been wrong many times about wot would go well in a challenge .. !! .. :)
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