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Days End On The Bend
Days End On The Bend
BrianR


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Rivers & Streams (Advanced Editing VI ("Time Lapse"))
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Date: Jan 10, 2008
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/320 + - 1 2/3
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Jan 13, 2008

 Days End On The Bend

Taken about 25klm from home, the Bilbee Creek Is tidal controlled and a great place for a fish. The shadows were across the sandbar when I arrived and the tide running out, the grass area is the front of a large homestead set back on a raised area.

Camera set AEB files tone adjusted and cropped in light room, and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. 2 files 1 compressed, one enhanced..

In photoshop blended the 2 files at 50% opacity with enhanced layer on top

Local contrast tool for PhotoShop
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Thanks for all the comments, and the oversaturation, this looked good to me, unfortuatlly the morphine pain management I am on must be letting me see things the way I want to and not how they are, I Liked the subject just the colors got confused :):):)

Statistics
Place: 196 out of 208
Avg (all users): 4.6823
Avg (commenters): 4.5714
Avg (participants): 4.5422
Avg (non-participants): 4.7890
Views since voting: 686
Views during voting: 317
Votes: 192
Comments: 27
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 01/23/2008 07:42:54 AM
Strong impact to the viewer, and yet, very appealing to me.....
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 01/21/2008 04:58:33 PM
I really like what the tone mapping has done for the trees and the rocks. The water and the sky didn't fair quite so well. They look very unnatural. The scene is beautiful. I love the light and composition.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/20/2008 09:16:13 PM
I think the colors are just way too over-saturated.
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 01/20/2008 09:15:06 PM
Very pretty scene, but seems oversaturated to me.
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 01/20/2008 08:07:55 PM
Colors a bit over saturated.
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 01/20/2008 05:46:38 AM
Great framing, though the colour combination and saturation seems a little harsh to my eyes :)
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 01/19/2008 06:51:20 PM
The curves of the bend are nice. The colors look quite oversaturated on my screen.
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 01/19/2008 03:25:12 PM
Way too saturated. There is a lot of noise as a result.
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 01/19/2008 09:38:16 AM
The colors are just not natural
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 01/17/2008 09:43:04 PM
This looks like it has been over processed
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 01/17/2008 09:40:09 AM
The color of the sand looks a little off to me, maybe it really was that bright though...?
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 01/16/2008 10:27:13 PM
Pretty scene but IMO the processing looks way over processed and saturated.
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 01/16/2008 10:22:07 PM
Like a post card....I like it.
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 01/16/2008 08:12:16 PM
doesn't look like a photo...looks like a painting and possibly like paradise
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 01/15/2008 10:16:38 PM
Very grainy and a little odd.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/15/2008 02:13:26 PM
Nice picture with the river leading the eye into the frame. IMO the colours seem a little off to me maybe a little over processed
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 01/15/2008 05:27:15 AM
nice shot, but saturation seems a bit much.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/15/2008 03:23:23 AM
I like this, even though it reminds me of a Hawaiian shirt print. The oversaturation and oversharpend treatment gives it a 50's feel. I think it suits the image, but others might find it too overprocessed.
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 01/15/2008 01:33:03 AM
The colors look really un-natural on my monitor.
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 01/15/2008 01:09:09 AM
Ouch. Way over processed I am afraid. A lot of artifacts from oversharpening and oversaturating.

The composition is nice but unfortunately you took a good shoot and then got carried away in post.
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 01/15/2008 12:21:58 AM
A little to much saturation for me...
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 01/14/2008 09:56:56 PM
nice coloring looks a little over processed though
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/14/2008 05:15:45 PM
This looks over processed to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/14/2008 03:47:59 PM
The colours have been pushed too far for my liking - so my knee jerk reaction was dislike, but the longer I look at it the more it grows on me. I can't put my finger on it...it looks so 'colour by numbers' but it works as a piece, moreso than most of the other more digital art that occasionally pops up. I'd have this on my wall, and that's my acid test to see if I really like an image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/14/2008 12:43:57 PM
A thoroughly pleasing composition, but a little ott with the satuartion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/14/2008 11:44:54 AM
The colours are too saturated
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 01/14/2008 12:21:39 AM
This might have been a good photo if you had not oversaturated
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