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After the Rain
After the Rain
Lorene


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Ruidoso, NM
Date: Aug 10, 2006
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/800 sec
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2006

 This is the view of the golf course at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino & Resort. I was on an upper level outside the lobby area of the resort. We have had a lot of rain in our state this summer, and everything is uncharacteristically green.

Converted from RAW: used three different exposures from the same RAW file, HDR-style.

In P/S:
Crop
Curves
Hue/Saturation
Brightness/Contrast
Burn on the pathway
Spot-healed a dry patch of grass
NI
Resize (bigger, yay!)
Sharpen
Save for web (bigger, yay!)

Original:

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 684
Avg (all users): 6.5394
Avg (commenters): 7.5313
Avg (participants): 6.4924
Avg (non-participants): 6.7018
Views since voting: 3577
Views during voting: 375
Votes: 254
Comments: 40
Favorites: 16 (view)

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 10/03/2006 12:07:02 PM
Blimey! What a difference from the original. I would have looked at the original and said "nothing special, move on" but this has come out fantastic. Good work.
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 09/09/2006 07:37:17 PM
WHOA those clouds are breathtaking!!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2006 05:56:25 PM
man! Check out your detail and color! I wonder what kind of editing you did to make it look this good! 10!!
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 09/07/2006 04:03:31 PM
view to kill nice details
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 09/07/2006 03:21:20 PM
Very crisp photo. I love the contrast of the trees against the water and sky.
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 09/07/2006 11:58:03 AM
BEAUTIFUL!!!!

Nothing else to say...well wait...maybe I would have cloned out the poles in the water...but that is the only thing.
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 09/06/2006 08:35:45 PM
Stunning photograph.
This woudn't have nearly the impact without that fabulous sky.
Well done on being in the right place at the right time.
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 09/06/2006 08:25:19 PM
Wow, Beautiful shot!
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 09/06/2006 05:08:00 PM
WOW!! This is awesome!!
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 09/06/2006 11:50:48 AM
Appears a bit unreal, but GREAT SKY!!
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 09/06/2006 11:13:23 AM
Gorgeous colors and vibrance!!
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 09/06/2006 10:07:41 AM
Wonderful color saturation! Love the green in the trees and the grass against that beautiful sky.
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 09/06/2006 07:15:43 AM
Wonderful rich colors, even though horizon seems to cut this in half, which I'm sure others will mention, I think it works well in this shot. good luck.
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 09/06/2006 06:23:15 AM
Beautiful sky. I bet this would look great as and IR shot.
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 09/05/2006 05:09:11 PM
wOw! Love it.
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 09/05/2006 11:28:38 AM
Great detail in this.
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 09/05/2006 10:15:08 AM
Great sky and colours
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 09/05/2006 09:29:44 AM
Nice contrast in colors.
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 09/04/2006 02:14:13 PM
very nice dreamy scene you've captured. i really love those dramatic clouds.
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 09/04/2006 12:27:46 AM
yes yes yes you shold be wining this free study. if i could vote it would be a 11 :)
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 09/03/2006 05:26:40 PM
Love this scene! Amazing clouds/sky and colours throughout.
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 09/03/2006 04:07:56 PM
The lighting on the trees and clouds give this a very painterly look which works well for this image -- I bet it would look great printed on canvas. Such an advantage to have some clear air to shoot through : )
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 09/03/2006 10:51:20 AM
Good work on the sky.8
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 09/03/2006 07:42:00 AM
What an amazing sky! The greens in this look so vibrant against it, makes it look like a painting. Beautiful! 10
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 09/03/2006 03:48:51 AM
incredible sky...great colour
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 09/02/2006 07:50:22 AM
You have made a nice day great with the processing skills you have used.
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 09/02/2006 07:49:49 AM
Great looking sky with a lovely green landscape, and some hills. Good combination.
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 09/02/2006 06:39:08 AM
Great landscape, especially the dramatic clouds.
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 09/01/2006 09:51:24 PM
Wonderful DOF and detail, and that sky looks cool!
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 09/01/2006 08:06:11 PM
Extraordinary vision...
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 09/01/2006 06:53:58 PM
Very nice contrasting photo,good sky effect...
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 09/01/2006 06:45:52 PM
very nice great colors ,love the clouds.
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 09/01/2006 05:27:24 PM
Very clear and finely detailed. Love the sky.
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 09/01/2006 10:16:26 AM
I love the colours and the fresh, just after rain feel of this image, and the gorgeous clouds. To my eye, though, the horizon seems just a very tiny bit tilted towards the right. 7
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 09/01/2006 08:48:43 AM
FANTASTIC SKY. LOVE THE TONAL RANGE!
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 09/01/2006 07:25:08 AM
awesome clouds. great colors too. kinda busy but beautiful.
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 09/01/2006 04:47:16 AM
Beautiful cloudscape.
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 08/31/2006 11:12:51 PM
great scene. too processed maybe? The difference in light in the sky and scenery is not quite right.
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 08/31/2006 09:05:37 PM
I love the colors and the sky. The crop seems chopped. I held my hand up and eliminated the right tree all the way up and although it changed it to portrait orientation, I think compositionally, it works better. Nice effort.
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 08/31/2006 08:19:55 PM
This is beautifully processed and wonderfully precise, but it feels way too light in the lower left and middle for me. I wish it were burned down to keep the eye from escaping off the bottom of the image. Sweet work!
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