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Challenge: Window Framed (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Gullfoss, Iceland
Date: Apr 20, 2006
Aperture: 16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2006

 Well this is probably the most effort I have ever put in at DPC since I started here. I got this idea pretty much immediately after I saw the challenge description but I needed some help so I called up two of my teammates in the Magnificent 7 for help, Andri and
Steinar .

Andri was able to get an old window from the place he works, Husasmidjan yesterday (19th of april). I could only take this photo this day since I was busy the whole weekend, luckily the 20th is the "first day of summer" here in Iceland and is a national holiday. I was still busy in the afternoon though so we had to get up at around 5:30 am to go driving out in the countryside with this window in the trunk. Anyway, we got to Gullfoss at around 9 pm and fortunately we were the only people around, if people had seen them holding up this window for me to photograph through it they probably would have thought us to be pretty out of it.

This is no photoshop trick or mixing of 2 photos or a printed out photo as a backround in a studio or anything like that, this is a real window in front of a real waterfall lit with ambient lighting.

Here are the entries Andri and Steinar did with the exact same window :)




As for post processing, I cropped heavily, used the lens correction tool to correct the perspective, the image tilted a small bit downwards when I took it. Did a curves adjustment on just the wood in the window to darken it and the same then on the waterfall, a separate curves adjustment and made it slightly bluer with the colour balance tool. Lots of healing brush to clean up the window, when I was holding it up for Andri earlier in the day I dropped it in horse manure, that explains the some of the stains that you see on the photo :)

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 180
Avg (all users): 6.4017
Avg (commenters): 7.2286
Avg (participants): 6.1628
Avg (non-participants): 6.5359
Views since voting: 2409
Views during voting: 455
Votes: 239
Comments: 41
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 04/30/2006 11:43:10 PM
Great picture Larus. I really wish you had scored higher on this. I can totally see all the effort you put in to this but what struck me when I voted was that it looks soooo much like the frame was added to the picture in photoshop. This perception is only being strengthened since it looks impossible for this to be anyones backyard as the title implies.

The view down also doesn't match the perfectly square window and it looks like the wall where the window was had to be tilted 30 degrees forward for this to be someone's bacyard.

But... after you explained how it was done I understand it all. I did not understand it in the challenge though.

Having said all this - it's a beautiful picture! :)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/30/2006 07:53:42 PM
Very nice.
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 04/30/2006 07:31:48 PM
excellent! 10!
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 04/30/2006 05:54:22 PM
looks unreal to me?
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 04/30/2006 02:44:32 PM
Clever and well done. It looks like a photo in back of the window frame - the lighting is very well thought out and well done for such a shot. Nice symmetry and straight on perspective with good attention to the horizontals and verticals, too.
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 04/30/2006 12:57:17 PM
nicer than my backyard you are lucky....also a nice image...nice tight focus- crisp. GL
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 04/30/2006 05:13:11 AM
You obviously don't live in florida or kansas...

I would like to see a shot of this without the window some time. The contrast of the brown window and the blue-tones of the outdoors is a bit awkward (IMHO).
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 04/29/2006 09:53:13 PM
This looks unreal. Great job. 8.
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 04/29/2006 06:53:26 PM
Nice place to live. I like the color, lighting and tone of this picture
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 04/29/2006 05:11:15 PM
Really, that's your backyard? WOW! Where in the world is it? There is a sense of being right on top of the water - so close it seems unreal.
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 04/29/2006 04:25:02 PM
I wish it were my back yard. Nice picture
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 04/29/2006 01:06:58 PM
I love the ocean outside my back window, but this makes me think about trading it in. Nice crisp photo. Like the sharpness of the window frame in re: to the soft flow ocurring outside.
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 04/29/2006 12:21:37 PM
wish I lived there. good capture. - 7
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 04/29/2006 09:17:16 AM
great idea, but the angle of view doesn't make this realistic enough facing downwards as it is.. I like the idea and the lighting mood..
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 04/29/2006 07:17:34 AM
Fantistic shot. The view through the window looks slightly soft though. 8
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 04/29/2006 06:08:17 AM
If this is your backyard then I want to visit your home! Great contrasting colours! Good luck.
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 04/29/2006 03:14:35 AM
Wow! Wonderful landscape. Beatiful window
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 04/28/2006 03:41:41 PM
No way. Looks too artificial.
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 04/28/2006 01:24:33 PM
Very nice.
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 04/28/2006 12:00:43 PM
Great Photo
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 04/28/2006 11:13:37 AM
nú, ertu með gullfoss í bakgarðinum?
ramminn rímar ekki alveg nógu vel við tónana í fossinum, en góð hugmynd engu að síður. gangi þér vel.
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 04/28/2006 05:23:33 AM
too false, it looks odd
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 04/27/2006 03:54:12 PM
if this isn't a PS hoax, I'm really impressed! :-)
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 04/27/2006 03:32:58 AM
this is fantastic...hope it does well for you
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 04/26/2006 07:19:46 PM
You have go to be kidding! :-) Great control of the lighting!
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 04/26/2006 06:07:35 PM
Great backyard!! Great capture, beautiful image, the wood frame of the window really adds to the contrasting scenery, good luck
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 04/26/2006 04:47:19 AM
Wow! Must be Iceland!
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 04/26/2006 03:47:40 AM
Haha

góður !
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 04/25/2006 06:16:27 PM
Must be nice to see that every day! good texture and light control on the window frame and water.
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 04/25/2006 05:16:52 PM
Umm, any chance you are selling the place? :)

Nice...
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 04/25/2006 03:35:27 PM
sweet! I wish it was my backyard.
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 04/25/2006 12:43:03 PM
Gullfoss upper alles Lalli
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 04/25/2006 11:11:55 AM
Beautiful. Good in all technical and creative aspects. My vote is an 8
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 04/25/2006 11:11:09 AM
no way! i dont believe it. wow if its true
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 04/25/2006 09:10:44 AM
If this is no manipulation and it really is your back yard, I'm jealous! Very nice. The window frame is a little bit too dark for me, but still, 8!
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 04/25/2006 05:17:03 AM
We're sooooo Jealous! Great capture. I could look at this everyday.
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 04/24/2006 10:26:33 PM
Powerful image.....
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 04/24/2006 09:25:26 AM
Sureal looking! Very cool!
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 04/24/2006 07:38:34 AM
Nice contrasts of warm wood and cold icy water.
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 04/24/2006 06:18:35 AM
Hey! are you Icelanders sharing the same window frame :-) Nice image.
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 04/23/2006 11:06:46 PM
Lovely backyard ... almost as cool as the lake I have in mine :)
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