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Conservatory Blue
Conservatory Blue
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-04 (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Date: Apr 11, 2007
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Landscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2007

 Taken at the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, NM. Unfortunately I didn’t use a tripod so although I took three images with the intent to create an HDR image, the final result ended up a little too blurry. More unfortunately I was short on storage space by that time in the day and was shooting jpeg, not RAW – doh!! Did what I could with one jpeg.

Processing:
Single jpeg converted to -2, 0 and +2 tiff images
Tiffs converted to HDR and tonemapped in Photomatix
In Photoshop CS --
Neat Image noise reduction
Cloned out light posts, people, a rock, flecks in water
Selective dodging, burning and saturation
Lucis Arts 'Exposure' filter added as new layer at 20%
Hue/saturation adjustment layer
Levels adjustment layer
Layer in blend mode 'soft light' with black and white painting to darken/lighten selective areas
Resize
Unsharp mask
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 265 out of 573
Avg (all users): 5.7539
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.5735
Avg (non-participants): 6.2000
Views since voting: 956
Views during voting: 268
Votes: 191
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/31/2008 01:02:43 PM
The contrasts of Architecture and nature beautifully composed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/19/2007 09:01:27 PM
This really is a nice picture Colleen. The blue is very vibrant, but I don't see it as over saturated at all. Clarity and sharpness are as good as the exposure. I don't see anything not to like!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/25/2007 03:50:57 PM
I love the colors in this, I don't think it's too far at all! looks great!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/06/2007 04:16:24 AM
The composition is good but I think you went a little to far on the saturation part.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/03/2007 08:45:44 AM
Postcard quality.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2007 05:01:25 AM
love it, looks heavily Pshopped to me but i like it all the same :o)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2007 11:14:51 AM
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  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2007 09:51:26 AM
This is a very sharp, colorful image, though the ground in the bottom left is distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2007 06:14:21 AM
very appealing photo...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2007 03:56:25 AM
Way to much saturation but otherwise great photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2007 08:29:01 PM
I really like the brilliant blues here but I think that the big patch of dirt on the left breaks up the neon nature of the rest of the picture though and I think it may have been nice to clone over the water from the right to the left
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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