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Space, Science, and Smoky Skies
Space, Science, and Smoky Skies
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-06 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jun 26, 2008
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/640
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2008

 Late afternoon sun through the haze of smoke from over one thousand California wildfires which hung over the Bay Area for several days last week.

-Handheld, shutter-priority mode
-RGB Curve
-Made selection mask for sky area
-Red and Blue Curves applied to sky area through mask
-RGB and Blue Curves applied to foreground through inverted mask
-Perspective tool to straighten vertical elements from wide-angle tilt
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-Rectangular selection from pole to left edge
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 applied twice to selected area
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 160kb

Statistics
Place: 454 out of 473
Avg (all users): 4.5548
Avg (commenters): 4.3333
Avg (participants): 4.3883
Avg (non-participants): 4.9535
Views since voting: 853
Views during voting: 219
Votes: 146
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/06/2008 02:19:42 AM
Nice catch of the sun.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/05/2008 11:42:52 AM
wow, it took a secnd to figure out that was the sun, but its an odd composition..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2008 01:33:58 PM
I'm not finding a lot of interest in this photo. Though I'm sure it was interesting to you with the smoke and such.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/02/2008 07:41:14 PM
Nice shot but the sun is a little bright.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/02/2008 11:15:22 AM
was there a fire?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2008 10:47:32 PM
kind of boring imo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2008 07:19:55 AM
Different angle but I would have not cropped so close to the bottom banner.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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