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Unstable Apex
Unstable Apex
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Challenge: Landscape III (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Stoney Point Park - Chatsworth, California
Date: Apr 11, 2007
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/8 to 1/125 secs.
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2007

 With a Graduated Neutral Density filter on my Cokin filter system, I exposed the scene nine times at f/22 using 0.5 exposure compensation increments -2 to +2. Major steps included:

o Combining those images using HDR in CS2
o Adjusted using Local Adaptation
o Neat Image
o Cropped
o Created three adjustment layers that I tweaked individually (from saturation to hue to sharpness).
o Resize
o Flattened
o Smart Sharpen
o Save for web

I'm hoping this will come in between 5.0 and 5.5.

Statistics
Place: 154 out of 308
Avg (all users): 5.6513
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5054
Avg (non-participants): 5.7321
Views since voting: 826
Views during voting: 390
Votes: 261
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 04/29/2007 12:50:20 PM
Nice composition, great sky - would prefer to be able to see a bit more detail in the very dark portions at the bottom.
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 04/25/2007 05:59:51 PM
Awesome processing, I do think a closer crop on the bottom about 25% of the shot may have made it a stronger image, IMHO, very nice though, love the sky!
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 04/25/2007 08:47:49 AM
you did good. I will not comment of post processing as I'm not half as good as you all.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/24/2007 04:33:24 PM
Great 10
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 04/23/2007 02:37:33 AM
Back to comment: You found a very pleasing landscape challenge subject with exceptional lighting. IMHO the composition of your image suffers from the square crop you choose. There is a lot of negative space at the top and bottom that doesn't really add to the composition. A more traditional landscape crop (4x6 or 5x7 ratio) would help considerably. I would suggest letting the slope of the rock formation on the left side intercept the lower left hand corner of the crop. This will provide a very strong, diagonal leading line to the boulder at the top of the formation. This image also looks a little soft. Did you remember to sharpen a little bit after downsizing the image for the challenge? 7

Tim
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 04/20/2007 07:36:18 PM
The shadow area seems a bit distracting.
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 04/19/2007 01:55:01 PM
Personally I think it goes over the edge when it comes to editing, but... ...I like it, at least the canvas. (8)
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 04/19/2007 12:56:13 AM
Perfectly exposed, nice shot. Perhaps a little more detail on the cliff would have been nice. Not so much of a landscape.
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 04/18/2007 09:42:09 AM
Needs a crop from the top, IMHO.
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 04/18/2007 06:55:07 AM
Very dramatic lighting!
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 04/17/2007 10:21:24 PM
Cool!
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 04/17/2007 08:28:22 PM
I love the sky in this shot. Great colour contrast between the shrubs and the rocks. The rocks look a bit blurry, but perhaps that's their texture. Nice shot.
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