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Challenge: Where's Waldo? III (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: One Tree Hill, Auckland, New Zealand
Date: Jun 22, 2007
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2000 second
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Jun 24, 2007

 With winter being upon us in NZ the weather was not my friend. There were few dry spells in which to shoot this and when it wasn't raining the sun was always in the wrong place - in this shot it was just to the left of the frame. This caused some processing fun to make the image acceptable.

As for the people, there are a couple walking down the road just to the left of the tree below the monument.

Editing Steps:
Convert from RAW in exposures -2, -1.5, -1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5
HDR
Tone map
Neat Image
Cloning out of distractions (like the sheep on the hill)
Dodge & Burn
On the sky
* Levels 26, 1.00, 255
Levels 28, 1.00, 255
Brightness -2
Contrast +15
"s" curve
Hue, cyan, +24
Saturation, blue, +24
Lightness, blue, -12
Flatten
Resize
USM
Add border
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 41 out of 150
Avg (all users): 6.0347
Avg (commenters): 6.2857
Avg (participants): 5.7500
Avg (non-participants): 6.1549
Views since voting: 719
Views during voting: 425
Votes: 202
Comments: 24
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/01/2007 02:58:28 PM
nice picture. can't find waldo..
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 07/01/2007 04:31:42 AM
Fantastic!!
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 06/29/2007 03:27:45 PM
cool, is this in England? Took me a while to see Waldo walking up the hill :) well done
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 06/29/2007 02:52:48 PM
It is a nice image but on my monitor it is way over processed.
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 06/29/2007 09:51:27 AM
This is a beautiful picture.
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 06/28/2007 08:54:36 PM
Thats quite the obelisk. Where is that?
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 06/28/2007 02:59:29 PM
Great visual! I like how the cloud on the right looks like a mountain
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 06/28/2007 09:26:08 AM
I'll just have to trust you on that.
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 06/28/2007 08:00:28 AM
Beautiful image!
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 06/27/2007 09:53:33 PM
Someone walking at the top end of the visible part of the curved road. Nice picture.
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 06/26/2007 06:39:05 PM
Man, you were lucky (or very patient). Every time I try to get a shot of the hill, there's a squillion fitness fanatics and tourists in cars getting in the way. Great job on the colour and light.
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 06/26/2007 02:39:37 PM
Great landscape, are there two Waldos on that road? Beautiful colouring and you have got the blues and the greens really complimenting each other
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 06/26/2007 12:48:30 PM
Lovely. Such wonderful shades of green, such a blue, blue sky, monument almost in complete shadow, but with details working to show through. Composition is spot on, makes me want to run up the road to "Waldo" and ask what's over the hill. Delightful. 8.
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 06/26/2007 11:24:17 AM
Awesome colors (though the grass may be a bit green). I like how the structure and the two trees add movement to the shot by providing two places for the eyes to rest.
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 06/25/2007 08:08:10 PM
Very nice shot, and great colour in this image. The sky colour looks a little off to me though, not sure if that was natural, or a result of post processing.
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 06/25/2007 12:42:43 PM
I think there was definitely too much dodging on the hill, it looks uneven and overprocessed, however your composition is brilliant. great line and assymetrical balance
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 06/25/2007 12:37:03 PM
brilliant, well hidden in a lovely picture
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 06/25/2007 11:10:44 AM
I would have given you a higher score if you had giving the viewer a reasonable chance to find Waldo on their own (hiding in plain sight)and not reducing him to ant size and setting them on a metaphorical mountain it doesn't work.
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 06/25/2007 09:24:09 AM
Great landscape shot !
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 06/25/2007 06:36:13 AM
several Waldos, but that's okay.
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 06/25/2007 05:03:41 AM
Nice composition and shot, I wish that waldo would have been a bit more visible. Thank goodness for the lighter road. Colors are brilliant nice work.
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 06/25/2007 05:00:04 AM
HEE HEE - found 'im. Good thing I have on my reading glasses. ROFL Love the setting. I might play with levels to enrich the greens a smidge. ;~D
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 06/25/2007 01:10:45 AM
I might be wrong, but I see two Waldos. otherwise good shot, jsut a bit too much dodging on the right side of the hill
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 06/24/2007 08:36:40 PM
Beautiful, but I really can't see Waldo... maybe down the hill but if that is the case then there are two waldos??
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