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Lux Aeterna Luceat Eis
Lux Aeterna Luceat Eis
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Religion (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: May 26, 2007
Aperture: f/ 13
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/750 sec.
Galleries: Urban, Landscape
Date Uploaded: May 29, 2007

 Well it was Bev's birthday on Saturday, Jaime and Tracey and I went with Bev to her new favorite restaurant in West Philly. We had a marvelous meal...Bev had shrimp with Wasabe Rice...she loved the rice! I had a wonderful Salmon with a blood orange reduction. Great stuff! Well after the meal I went out to smoke while the ladies kibitzed a bit. Took pictures of a wonderful display of cornflowers along the front of the restaurant. And then I noticed the setting sun on the church across the way. So I shot away and came up with this. Happy Birthday, Bev!!!

Post: Ooooh tough one. Not quite sure how I got it this way, but lately I haven't had to worry! LOL!

Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue saturation. Tried a gradient layer....hmmm....that I have no Idea how to do so it must not have worked. Tried playing with curves...big time...but it ended up looking like a kid's coloring book picture. Tried a warming filter. Oy....Nothing! Then I gave it a boost of Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Brilliance and Warmth and that sort of did the trick with a boost from a curves adjustment. Cloned out a TV atenna that was in the center of the 4 cross towers of the church. Appeared to be a lot of dust or something to the right of the finished image so it was cloned out but eventually cropped altogether. Once the final crop was decided, I cloned out a small clumped of the trees on the lower mid left. Sharpen. Resize. Sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 34 out of 311
Avg (all users): 5.9949
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 5.8182
Avg (non-participants): 6.0840
Views since voting: 937
Views during voting: 301
Votes: 197
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/05/2007 10:12:32 PM
nice work Robert, I thought this would have been much higher scorer, nice crop too. ;p
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 06/05/2007 09:41:27 PM
A lovely subject for a sihouette. Very nice processing.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/05/2007 11:51:35 AM
simple but dramatic
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 06/03/2007 11:17:08 AM
Gorgeous lighting
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 06/03/2007 02:30:05 AM
harry potter? 7
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 05/30/2007 11:14:56 AM
Very nice...
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 05/30/2007 07:31:08 AM
Beautiful picture, beautiful title. 9
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 05/30/2007 01:47:35 AM
Very dramatic:)
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 05/29/2007 10:53:32 PM
this is totally awesome .. love the silhouette ... the suggested trees and of course that amazing sky .. i dont know wot the title means unfortunately ..
just googled the title and wot a fitting title it is!!! “May eternal light shine upon them" .. and sorry but the title boosts this from 8 to 10 ..!! .. i say sorry, coz i'm voting not only on the image but the combination of the image with its title, and of course how well it fits the challenge ..
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