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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300s
Date: Aug 3, 2011
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/3 sec
Date Uploaded: Jan 22, 2012
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Shot on a 42-ft trawler doing about 6 knots on a ride from a marina in Portsmouth to Newport, RI. I was lucky enough to have a storm quickly move in right around sunset as we approached Newport harbor. This is definitely not "out of the camera", although I think it looks a lot closer to how I saw the sky.
Tone mapped in Photomatix Pro, used Topaz adjust to add some color/texture to the sky and the wood on the deck, lens correction filter to add a little vignette, levels adjustment to brighten the foreground, some dodge/burn in various places, hue/saturation adjustment to tone down the yellows in the foreground.
As a semi-noob to DPC, this is my first "best of" challenge, and since I picked my shot in the first day or two of the challenge announcement, I drove myself nuts tweaking this picture over the next 3 weeks. I have 14 versions of this photo in a folder, and after looking at them consecutively, I can barely remember why I liked or disliked any of them. Oh well, I had a blast taking this shot, and I'm glad I get to enter it so many months later. |
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02/24/2012 10:17:06 AM |
| Beautiful sky framed with a lovely set of curves. Fantastic and way underrated image, in my opinion. Great job. |
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02/21/2012 12:01:32 AM |
| Lot of subtle power in here, nice. |
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02/19/2012 04:59:05 PM |
| Fantastic sky and wide angle. |
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02/19/2012 01:48:03 PM |
| Very cool clouds and details. I'm just not a real big fan of the curved/fisheye style. |
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02/19/2012 01:47:38 PM |
| Fabulous perspective and sky. 10 |
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02/19/2012 05:14:50 AM |
| Unique POV and nice textured painted sky. Good exp. That UWA distortion is difficult to control. |
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02/18/2012 12:34:52 AM |
| Sometimes fish eye lenses work, sometimes they don't .. in this case it worked - nicely done - |
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02/16/2012 10:09:02 PM |
| Love the fire in the sky on the clouds. |
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02/16/2012 03:17:48 PM |
| Great point of view. Nice colors, composition, and what a dramatic sky. Well done. 8 |
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02/15/2012 02:18:52 AM |
| Gorgeous sky. I find the larger parts of the frame with the boat really distract from what I want to see more of. |
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02/14/2012 12:42:25 PM |
| loving these distortions. |
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02/14/2012 11:17:04 AM |
| Love the fisheye here. The bridge adds a nice element too. |
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02/10/2012 01:59:22 PM |
| Dramatic light! Wonder if that's the Newport bridge in the distance... |
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02/10/2012 11:23:32 AM |
| Love the composition here and of course the sky. |
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02/10/2012 01:25:30 AM |
| LOVE the use of the wide angle - very fun feel to this, and a great sky to go with it! |
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