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All is Calm
All is Calm "Now"
WonderDude


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Challenge: All is Calm (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000
Location: Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Dec 29, 2015
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/800
Date Uploaded: Dec 30, 2015

 Focal Length: 23mm (approx. 62.1mm full frame equivalent)

Went to our largest cemetery and found this section of unknown soldiers that had been placed in a fenced off area.

I played around with taking multiple shots using different exposures. I tried merging them through Photoshop. But eventually, I just ended up taking one of the darker ones and modifying the lighting and color just from that one shot.

I also cropped it a bit to get rid of some of the surrounding distractions. I then added a mix of sepia and gray-scaling.

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 01/21/2016 01:53:00 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Intriguing image. Very glad that those who died in battle have found peace and the calm they deserve, in hallowed ground, but perturbed that nobody seems to have known who they were. The b/w works beautifully here and I like what appears to be a huge tree root to the right, breaks up what could otherwise look like too many leading lines without interrupting the flow of the eye. Meaning that I see it and register what it is but then keep going from there.

I had to smile when I read your notes. Way back when, Advanced editing was just one capture only, and now you can have up to 10 captures for an image, which is something I've never really been fond of. That's why some photogs ribbon so consistently, because they do nothing but focus stack the very best components of an image together to create a penultimate image. And I'm also a fan of cropping out stuff that doesn't need to be there.

Keep up the good work!

Susan
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