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Fall Comes to Wellsville Canyon
Fall Comes to Wellsville Canyon
dsidwell


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Your Corner of the World II (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Landscapes
Camera: Sony DSC-F828
Location: Wellsville Canyon, Utah USA
Date: Oct 2, 2005
Aperture: f 8.0
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Oct 2, 2005

No, the sky is NOT cloned! This canyon is famous around here for its fall colors, and rightly so. I happened to find a nice sky, too, but I had to hike through weeds for a half mile in my slippers to put the effects into the right place relative to the hill and trees.

PP: Put sky and ground on different layers. Sky: autocontrast, then faded until it looked good to me. Used Neatimage to clean it up a bit. Ground: lightened, cloned out a few fence posts, adjusted levels, but not colors (well, okay, when you adjust levels, you are adjusting colors, too). I used my Watercolor Filter and Crosshatch Filter at 15% technique to augment the textures. I also burned the shadows of the aspens at left to bring out their details. Gosh, I can't think of anything else--Oh yeah, I sharpened it, converted to DPC size, sharpened again and added a 4 pixel border.

I hope you enjoy this season as much as I do!

Statistics
Place: 15 out of 299
Avg (all users): 6.4724
Avg (commenters): 7.4286
Avg (participants): 6.3590
Avg (non-participants): 6.6341
Views since voting: 1328
Views during voting: 366
Votes: 199
Comments: 18
Favorites: 2 (view)


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11/11/2005 08:45:59 AM
Wow....phenomemal color and contrast
11/11/2005 08:38:59 AM
Very, very nice. Great colors although I might adjust the sky to make it a more standard blue.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/06/2005 10:56:49 PM
Great colors and amazing sky! I like the almost painting-like feel of this photo. Well done!
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10/06/2005 12:25:34 PM
nice, but why not make it bigger?
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10/05/2005 12:15:46 PM
Just very eye-catching. Nice colours against a pretty dramatic cloudy background.
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10/04/2005 07:42:18 PM
Great colors! Very artistic. One of my favorites.
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10/04/2005 04:02:10 PM
love the clouds and the color of the trees...good job..!!
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10/04/2005 03:25:56 PM
thank you for sharing this beautiful corner of your world
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10/04/2005 03:11:05 PM
Lovely! I would have liked to have seen more of the reds from the trees. As is, the colors are a little washed out and not as crisp as they could have been, IMO. Great corner of the world though! Wish I were there.
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10/04/2005 02:37:09 PM
love the color of the grass and leaves in contrast with the sky. I think this is an amazing photo.
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10/04/2005 09:53:25 AM
WOW!!! x 100!! haha ABSOLUTELY AMAZING COLORS!! I would definitely hang this up on a wall! great respresentation of topic!! Please PM me if you make prints!! BEAUTIFUL!! 10
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10/03/2005 11:40:27 AM
a very pretty landscape. the contrast between the sky and fall colours is wonderful.
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10/03/2005 10:34:35 AM
Seems a bit over-saturated and 'in your face'.
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10/03/2005 10:06:37 AM
too much post process my dear........
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10/03/2005 06:42:16 AM
Beautiful photo, awesome sky!
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10/03/2005 05:38:49 AM
The striations of the clouds in combination with the great contrast of the warm and cool tones gives this photo the SNAP that I like to see. I wish it were larger - it seems smaller than the 640 maximum allowance. I'd love to see more texture of the beautiful trees. Still a really eye catching landscape. 8
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10/02/2005 10:21:36 PM
fall colors, oh how I miss seeing them, good work
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10/02/2005 08:53:25 PM
I really liked the way you tweaked this one...ten
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