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Challenge: You Name It! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Date: Jul 7, 2013
Aperture: 4.00
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Science and Technology, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Jul 9, 2013

 Someone viewing Venus through telescope at Griffith Observatory.

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 52.8mm (35mm EQ)
-Separate masks for sky and interior
-Curves through masks to darken sky and shift colors
-Add noise to sky
-USM to sky area to accentuate noise
-Resize
-Curve to further darken sky area
-USM to interior at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-A little bruning to tone down sharpening halos
-SaveAs JPEG at 100% quality = 282KB

File: Viewer_IMG_6666-DPCusm.jpg

My own first choice of title would be a quote from Oscar Wilde:

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 115
Avg (all users): 6.0183
Avg (commenters): 6.2549
Avg (participants): 5.9365
Avg (non-participants): 6.1304
Views since voting: 1226
Views during voting: 251
Votes: 109
Comments: 56
Favorites: 0

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 07/19/2013 09:53:55 AM
Congrats on the bling, Paul!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/16/2013 07:55:23 PM
works
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 07/16/2013 07:33:16 PM
Madame Pascal
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 07/16/2013 07:08:59 PM
Fleshy Perceptivator


I'm hanging this in my fantasy art gallery.

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 07/16/2013 07:04:30 PM
Voted earlier coming back to comment.

My suggestion: Glimpse of the Cosmos
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 07/16/2013 05:58:21 PM
Hi Kirk
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 07/16/2013 05:30:33 PM
Are We Alone?

Lovely photo.
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 07/16/2013 04:06:15 PM
it's weird that we have a pair shot here, can't wait to see who shared the trip.

Oh yeah, "Macroscope"
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 07/16/2013 02:57:42 PM
Space, The Final Frontier
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 07/16/2013 01:41:16 PM
Contact
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 07/15/2013 10:24:51 AM
Eyes To The Sky
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 07/15/2013 05:49:51 AM
Looking For Forever
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 07/15/2013 05:42:06 AM
looking for the stars
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 07/14/2013 05:55:14 PM
Voyeur Deluxe
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 07/14/2013 09:45:49 AM
Explorer
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 07/13/2013 06:04:58 PM
beyond
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 07/13/2013 01:32:13 PM
This is so much stronger than my specs!
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 07/13/2013 12:10:03 AM
Hot Telescope

Re photo - very warm colors
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 07/12/2013 10:18:12 PM
L'impossible!
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 07/12/2013 02:07:43 PM
I see it !
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 07/12/2013 07:55:56 AM
"You are the dreamer, . . . and the dream."

-Joseph Sisko - Star Trek DS9 S:6 E:13
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 07/12/2013 03:45:56 AM
"Outlook"
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 07/11/2013 09:22:56 PM
Counting the Stars
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 07/11/2013 07:27:41 PM
Ultimate star gazing
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 07/11/2013 03:51:42 PM
Not your typical kit lens
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 07/11/2013 12:38:25 PM
Outer Limits
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 07/11/2013 11:08:37 AM
'You Can Have One Of These In Any Colour As Long As It's Orange'
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 07/11/2013 07:28:41 AM
I spy
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 07/11/2013 06:37:33 AM
To Touch the Stars
Voted earlier; back to comment.
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 07/11/2013 03:48:27 AM
peeping tom
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 07/11/2013 03:35:21 AM
Vast expanse
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 07/10/2013 10:03:20 PM
"Peeking At The Neighbours"
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 07/10/2013 09:43:31 PM
looking into the past
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 07/10/2013 07:08:04 PM
"To Infinity and Beyond!"
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 07/10/2013 06:33:43 PM
Galaxies
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 07/10/2013 03:25:09 PM
Hahaha! I know where YOU were. Not sure how you got the "stars" though....
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 07/10/2013 03:20:01 PM
eye on the universe
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 07/10/2013 01:47:35 PM
Starlight, Starbright
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 07/10/2013 01:37:22 PM
4,123,582, 4,123,583, 4,123,584, 27, CRAP!
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 07/10/2013 11:58:58 AM
tiny dots
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 07/10/2013 11:57:32 AM
"to infinity and beyond"
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 07/10/2013 11:57:05 AM
Un masked
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 07/10/2013 11:51:49 AM
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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 07/10/2013 11:45:50 AM
The eyes to the universe.
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 07/10/2013 11:12:57 AM
I can see Uranus
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 07/10/2013 09:54:02 AM
searching for that comet
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 07/10/2013 09:10:38 AM
The discovery
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 07/10/2013 09:01:19 AM
Starlight Starbright
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 07/10/2013 07:51:52 AM
Night gazing.

What is with the weird jaggy edges?
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 07/10/2013 07:02:56 AM
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground
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 07/10/2013 06:01:49 AM
Looking at the Sky of Diamonds
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 07/10/2013 04:41:32 AM
Looks like ET to me.
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 07/09/2013 11:38:13 PM
our future
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 07/09/2013 11:17:52 PM
Now all I need is the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator
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 07/09/2013 09:59:35 PM
Is there anybody out there?
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 07/09/2013 08:18:27 PM
Eye Spy with my...
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