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Ominous Morning
Ominous Morning
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Challenge: Morning (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Tamron AF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD for Pentax
Location: Huntington Beach, California
Date: Oct 13, 2006
Aperture: F4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/45 sec
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Oct 15, 2006

 Offshore oil platforms between Huntington Beach, California and Santa Catalina Island.

Post-processing:

o Neat Image
o Adjusted hue and saturation on different areas of the image (blue sky, clouds, orange sky, water)
o Cleaned up "minor distracting elements" in the water (some tiny specs of junk floating in the water)
o Flipped horizontally
o Resized for DPC
o USM
o Save for web (size priority)

Statistics
Place: 59 out of 188
Avg (all users): 5.9318
Avg (commenters): 7.3846
Avg (participants): 5.8537
Avg (non-participants): 5.9783
Views since voting: 1220
Views during voting: 329
Votes: 220
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/22/2006 12:46:42 AM
nice cloud.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2006 06:47:43 PM
Interesting. I really like the fact that you've managed to make a structure like that look tiny. Personally I don't get an ominous feeling from this, perhaps more isolation. The colours are a little flat, although quite natural looking.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2006 01:35:08 PM
Love this sky! This is great!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/21/2006 07:21:50 AM
Great, really shows how small we are.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/20/2006 07:16:32 PM
the blown out clouds on the top are distracting, try a lower crop on the top.
 10/19/2006 07:47:55 PM
Very pretty. Love the water, and the immense sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2006 06:30:20 AM
the white halos around the mountains and the derrek make this feel oversharpened to me. Beautiful scene and great composition on the photography!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/18/2006 02:13:11 AM
Me, I'd have split this into two separate pictures, top and bottom. Lovely colours.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2006 11:02:24 AM
Very nice use of negative (not sure it could be called that here) space in this one as the cloud does feel like it is going to engulf the derrick. 9.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2006 07:11:56 AM
Nice lighting and use of space
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2006 09:45:57 PM
Meets Challenge - 2
Lighting/Processing - 2
Composition - 2
Overall Impression - 2
"WOW" factor - 1
Score: 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2006 06:26:02 AM
A truly terrific shot!

The colors are perhaps a little more cheery than ominous indicates to me......I'm used to seeing Gulf thunderheads and I've never seen any this color before, but a good pic nonetheless.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2006 05:04:31 AM
Nice light and color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/15/2006 10:59:05 PM
6: Love the clouds and the rig in the foreground. I'd have cloned out the ship though and tried to make the clouds a bit more menacing
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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