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Storm's Crossing
Storm's Crossing
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Challenge: Best of 2008 (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: most southern tip of NYC
Date: May 22, 2008
Aperture: 5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1 second
Galleries: Sky, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2009

 This was an outtake of an image I submitted in a Free Study in May. It wasnt a busy year for me in 2008 since I began to focus on my novels, and so this is probably one of my best shots of the year.

PP details:
Curves raised on bottom half of the photo, as well as desaturating the bottom half about 75%, I then raised the Contrast a tiny bit along with the overall saturation in the sky only. I then brightened the highlights a bit more and burned the orange parts of the sky. After placing a thin Black border and 2 doses of Unsharp mask, I saved it after a 15% crop at about 197KB. @maximum quality.

Statistics
Place: 385 out of 531
Avg (all users): 5.2832
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.2840
Avg (non-participants): 5.2807
Views since voting: 985
Views during voting: 369
Votes: 226
Comments: 6
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 01/28/2009 05:19:52 AM
It has alot of impact, I am a big fan of dramatic skies and think you did well with that. I may have cropped it a little higher to have just the grass in silhouette giving more attention to the sky than lower in the frame but that's just one opinion anyway gave it a 7 in voting and overall liked the image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/18/2009 05:23:17 AM
nice crisp, clean sharp details with your eye drawn straight to what you want to look at. Well done
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 01/17/2009 06:51:58 AM
good capture
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 01/16/2009 03:43:48 PM
Classic. Love the swaying cat tails in the foreground. Adds another dimension of texture. Beautiful sky. 7
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 01/16/2009 03:03:47 AM
lovely scene - the sky burning, the lines of the shore reaching up to the bridge - but the image seems to lack just a bit of sharpness
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 01/15/2009 07:28:22 PM
STRONG IMPACT HERE.......
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