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Rescue Training
Rescue Training
ScottK


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Challenge: National Geographic (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A40
Location: Encinitas, CA
Date: Jan 16, 2004
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Action, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Jan 18, 2004

 Driving back from lunch I saw a helecopter over the beach and thought I had stumbled across an actual rescue. Turned out it was a training excercise - which still was pretty interesting. This was one of those situations where I got a half dozen good shots, but none was exactly what I would have liked. I picked this one because it had a quality that seems common to me in NG pictures - context. I would have liked to have gotten the spectators while the helecopter was pulling someone else, but I missed that one.

Not too much editing on this shot. Mostly the basics of crop, levels, saturation and some selective color on the whole shot, plus selective color adjustment on the sky with a mask. Sharpened, resized, sharpened. Oh, and I ran it through Neat Image both before and after - the sky in shots like this tends to have lots of noise from my camera.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/23/2004 04:10:18 PM
Good subject matter but this picture is plagued by either poor focusing or compression. And I might have cropped a bit more off the bottom.
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 01/22/2004 07:18:49 AM
If the focus were a bit better I could definetly see this in a NG article.
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 01/21/2004 02:42:31 AM
bit snap-shotty, but like the composition.
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 01/19/2004 07:42:19 AM
Not a lot here to hold our interest.
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 01/19/2004 07:20:04 AM
Great idea here. Would like to see more of the rescue training (assume it's the spec lower center in the water w/ the helicoper) People watching/waiting don't bring the drama that the rescuing would.
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