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Revealing the Colors
Revealing the Colors
giantmike


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Natural Body of Water (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Oct 10, 2011
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Nature, Water
Date Uploaded: Oct 11, 2011

[Oct. 17th, 2011 11:10:20 PM]

Whoops, forgot to update the details and title. I had a different, less powerful shot at first under this title, and meant to find something different. Luckily it still seems to work out.

This is a park near my house that I have gotten a number of great photos from. I really liked how the clouds were playing against the colors of the countryside.

Post Processing:
* Crop and Straighten
* Increase Black Point
* Topaz Adjust
* Increase black point further
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast and definition
* Decrease saturation but increase vibrancy
* Levels
* Colors tweaks (desaturate blue, saturate orange/green/red/purple)
* Very slight vignette
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 150
Avg (all users): 5.6577
Avg (commenters): 6.4000
Avg (participants): 5.5088
Avg (non-participants): 5.8148
Views since voting: 407
Views during voting: 221
Votes: 111
Comments: 5
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/23/2011 11:54:06 PM
Beautiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/22/2011 02:03:28 PM
A tad picky but I would have cropped a tiny bit from the bottom to remove the grass overlapping the water. I feel that would just help the eye flow along the water, but at the moment that clump of grass breaks the flow. Nice range of tones and saturation though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2011 04:15:41 PM
The colors are great, purple, golden, the composition is dominated by the big gold patch, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2011 02:08:35 PM
Great colours. Composition not all that good I think but a very pleasing picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2011 08:04:50 AM
The quintessential autumn shot. Love the gray clouds.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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