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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Black and White Landscape II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO IF for Canon
Location: Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Date: Apr 17, 2013
Aperture: 10.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2013
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Haven't been active on DPChallenge for ages, but I've decided its time to come back home where I learnt everything.
Photo taken at sunrise in the Blue Mountains near the 3 Sisters. I was taking photos of the fog in the valley for a more wide angle landscape, and noticed this little patch of trees across the valley with sunlight streaming across. Only lasted a little while, but took quite a few exposures and chose this one.
Editing:
1) clone out power lines in the background and a cable car in the corner with associated cables.
2) Clean up tree line to make it a little more uniform at the back using clone stamp tool
3) convert to B/W (red filter)
4) Painted on a 50% neutral gray layer to really accentuate the rays streaming through
5) USM with big radius, 0 threshold. This is really what made the photo pop, lots of midtone contrast added here, and probably the key to the edit
6) Vignette with levels
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Thanks everyone for the votes and comments, and its great to be back! Looks like the telephoto does in fact make for a landscape lens :)
I think the image looks nicer in Sepia (see below), but wasn't sure what the feeling towards Sepia toned in a BW challenge would be, so I went with this version. Which version do you prefer?
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05/01/2013 11:47:29 AM |
| I have a special place in my heart for all things foggy. Congrats to you! |
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04/30/2013 08:15:07 PM |
| Beautiful. I love the b/w version the most. So dramatic and striking. |
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04/29/2013 11:37:51 PM |
| Brilliant comeback and a gorgeous image. Congrats on the ribbon. Of the two, I prefer the b/w image. |
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04/29/2013 06:52:52 PM |
| Gorgeous. Beautifully done, and what a welcome back after some time away! So glad it ribboned! |
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04/29/2013 07:57:48 AM |
| Fog. You can't go wrong with fog. Congrats, and hope you enjoyed the return welcome :-) |
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04/29/2013 12:13:37 AM |
Congrats on the ribbon! Breathtaking magic in this scene.
I appreciate the editing steps, very interesting to know how you accentuated the rays. Wish I knew this for my own image :-). |
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04/28/2013 06:09:14 PM |
| I love the diagonals in that beautiful sunlit mist. |
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04/28/2013 06:04:38 PM |
Very prettily done.
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04/28/2013 05:30:41 PM |
| Beautiful and my top pick. |
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04/28/2013 11:33:13 AM |
| I like the way the mist looks like rays from the sun. |
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04/27/2013 01:23:26 PM |
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04/26/2013 07:13:32 PM |
| Nicely captured. Great diagonal movement. |
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04/24/2013 03:45:50 AM |
Looks so peaceful and quiet.
Very nice. |
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04/23/2013 06:09:06 PM |
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04/23/2013 03:07:05 PM |
| Wonderful filtered light! |
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04/23/2013 07:59:04 AM |
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04/22/2013 07:02:39 AM |
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04/21/2013 10:48:30 PM |
| beautiful light and structures. crop at top seems to be too close, makes we want to see what's up there |
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