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Heavy Artillery in California's Water Wars
Heavy Artillery in California's Water Wars
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2013 (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: near Los Banos, California, USA
Date: Jul 8, 2013
Aperture: 8.00
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/318
Date Uploaded: Jan 17, 2014

Dos Amigos Pumping Plant on part of the California Aqueduct, shipping water from the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta (which feeds San Francisco Bay) to southern and central California; taken at a "Vista Point" alongside Interstate 5.

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 77.4mm (35mm EQ)
-"Widened" roadway slightly (cloning) to remove unsightly grass
-RGB and Blue Curves
-Crop from bottom
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at 98% quality = 300KB

File: Canal_IMG_6846-DPCusm98

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