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Totally Gnarly
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Challenge: Constructed By Nature (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3
Location: Jemez Springs, NM
Date: Feb 15, 2010
Aperture: F 6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Feb 15, 2010

“Soda Dam - Located 1 mile north of Jemez Springs, the Jemez River pours through this amazing rock formation, a small mineral spring trickles nearby. Day-use only, sunrise to sunset. No overnight camping.”

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Place: 43 out of 119
Avg (all users): 5.8363
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.5510
Avg (non-participants): 5.9153
Views since voting: 908
Views during voting: 331
Votes: 226
Comments: 9
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03/05/2010 04:44:29 PM
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

Compositionally, I like how the stone part starts in the left side of the frame and leads through the picture towards the right side. There is also a nice balance between the two "open" sections.

Technically, the colors are almost surreal, but in an appealing way. I like the coolness of the white/blue against the warmness of the orange rocks. There appears to be some over-sharpness and this could very well be from resizing to fit within dpc parameters. If you were shooting with a tripod, I am wondering what it would have been like to lower your ISO to as low as it would go, up the f-stop number, and slow the shutter speed down. This would have slowed some of the motion of the water and it wouldn't have been as "chunky" and thus wouldn't have artifacted as bad on resizing.

Overall a good shot, and a good entry for this particular challenge.

karma
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2010 09:29:03 PM
Looks like a very interesting place.
02/22/2010 10:16:51 PM
Never seen the soda dam in winter before... cool.
02/21/2010 11:15:55 AM
Very interesting, also if you read up on how these deposits are formed.
02/20/2010 12:46:05 PM
and totally awesome. 8
02/19/2010 12:55:40 PM
great picture
02/18/2010 07:54:55 AM
Odd compisition, but quite nice subject.
02/18/2010 07:30:49 AM
great subject! perfect title! good job!
02/17/2010 01:18:18 PM
I think this image has more to give, but I dotn think the software used to resize it has done a good god at all, it appears as if the colour channels arent aligned, like a 3D image with those glasses


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