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The Painted Fairway
The Painted Fairway
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2007-08 (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Date: Aug 29, 2007
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800 second
Galleries: Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Aug 29, 2007

 I didn't have anything I liked much this month so thought I'd play with an "average" shot and see if I could do something different with the effects in Photoshop. This is using the Fresco filter that comes standard with Photoshop.

It's the final day of submission and now there's an Impressionism challenge announced. This would fit much better in that but too late now. Hopefully the comments I get in the first days of voting on this will help with my entry for that challenge.

Editing Steps:
Open RAW in Photomatix
* HDR
* Tone Map
Fresco Filter
Clone out a few elements
Channel Mixer
* Red: +150, -25, -25
* Green: -25, +150, -25
* Blue: -25, -25, +150
Brightness +13
Contrast -9
Saturation -18
Shadow/Hilight
On the sky
* Photo Filter: Blue, 70%
Levels: 17, 1.00, 255
Selective Colour:
* Reds: Black +100
* Greens: Black +100
Flatten & Resize
USM
Add Border
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 484 out of 503
Avg (all users): 4.4615
Avg (commenters): 4.3750
Avg (participants): 4.3918
Avg (non-participants): 4.6087
Views since voting: 595
Views during voting: 201
Votes: 143
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2007 05:36:40 PM
I really don't care for the processing on this. but that's just me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2007 03:43:20 AM
Post processing to extreme
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/05/2007 06:05:44 AM
Sorry but don´t dig the filter effect on this shot at all, I want entries that look like photographs and not something made in paintbrush or illustrator. Just wanted to explain why I gave this a 2.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2007 06:29:43 AM
Interesting post processing. Looks very painterly.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2007 11:25:13 PM
I'm not as fond of the painting style, though I suspect this type of thing would do well in the impressionism challenge. I do like the golf theme, though!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2007 04:05:30 PM
Maybe for the Impressionism challenge?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2007 01:55:45 AM
overuse of noise reduction.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/31/2007 10:15:17 PM
Kinda hard to actually see the fairway, maybe it needed a higher spot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/31/2007 09:45:13 PM
neat effect
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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