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Sunbeams and rain
Sunbeams and rain
tonyv


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Rain (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Piekenierskloof, Western Cape, South Africa
Date: Aug 8, 2005
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Aug 9, 2005

 Tripod mounted.
"Default Camera" settings for camera raw, except sharpening (=100%)

In PhotoShop Elements 3.0:
- Rotate slightly
- Crop
- Levels
- Hue / Saturation (may have overdone this a bit)
- a little USM to finish
- saved for web


Statistics
Place: 21 out of 228
Avg (all users): 6.3344
Avg (commenters): 6.8235
Avg (participants): 6.1818
Avg (non-participants): 6.4365
Views since voting: 1644
Views during voting: 511
Votes: 302
Comments: 26
Favorites: 5 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/05/2007 10:25:57 AM
Tony,
I wanted to get back to this one. It looks simlar to where I live, although we are on opposite sides of the globe. Very pretty with the mist and green fields.
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 06/04/2006 01:14:35 PM
Great pic... awesome colours and lighting...
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 04/20/2006 06:07:06 PM
Great use of ROT. Really nice definition of layers too (colors, levels, textures, etc.) Good job.
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 02/20/2006 08:55:28 PM
The lighting is beautiful! The colors are nicely saturated. Great image.
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 11/14/2005 05:05:46 AM
Beautiful photo with good saturation and lighint. Only complaint is that a bit of the clouds are blown on in the upper right on my monitor.
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 10/29/2005 03:17:37 AM
congratulations on your placing and score on this pic. pure pleasure!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/21/2005 04:13:19 PM
very nice landscape
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 08/21/2005 10:32:01 AM
Very unusual in the way the rays converge -- like spotlights on a stage (might make a good BG for a collage).
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 08/21/2005 05:36:17 AM
ok, I see the sunrays, but wheres the rain?
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 08/20/2005 04:41:45 PM
Whoa! What a relief to come upon this shot after all the DNMC's I just went through. Fantastic, lovely, uplifting. Slippy & Ebert give this two thumbs up, WAY UP! The sunbeams through the rain, the colour and geometry of the fields... [10]

edit - picking this as a top ten finisher, good luck!
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 08/20/2005 08:13:13 AM
cool pic - 9
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 08/20/2005 01:08:50 AM
Awsome landscape shot. I love beams of light like this, and this is just stunning.
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 08/19/2005 04:09:49 PM
Great landscape shot. I like how the haze creates a secondary layer beyond the green field. 6
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 08/19/2005 01:48:18 PM
Interesting shot and very appealing image. Nice capture of the vast expanse.
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 08/18/2005 11:48:45 AM
beautiful. great colors, and i just love the lighting here.
good luck :-)
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 08/18/2005 06:19:40 AM
WOW! I love the light! Aww... Makes me miss the mountains... *sniff*
Good job!
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 08/17/2005 05:50:06 PM
Really nice vantage point you found to shoot the valley from. Nice scene
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 08/17/2005 02:05:10 AM
Highly evocative image. It conveys the feel of distant rain so faithfully, I can just about smell it! 7
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 08/16/2005 02:46:04 PM
I like the contrast of the blue mountains and green fields, and the fact that the horizon isn't dead center helps as well. I also like the "sunbeams." However, there isn't really anywhere for the eyes to "rest" or anything that makes the shot say "Hey, I'm a super-interesting landscape, keep looking at me." I did find myself trying to see the small patch of stuff in the lower right.
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 08/16/2005 01:46:49 PM
Lovely how the light plays tricks on the fields and on the falling rain.
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 08/15/2005 12:31:46 PM
Very cool!
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 08/15/2005 12:28:26 PM
Beautiful!!! I love shots like this. Great job!
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 08/15/2005 11:20:44 AM
Nice light!
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 08/15/2005 08:33:32 AM
nice landscape and vantage point. 7
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 08/15/2005 06:24:33 AM
Beautiful light, the simple composition works well here.
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 08/15/2005 05:34:41 AM
Such beautiful light and color... Ilove the patchwork greens...a very quiet image.
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