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Challenge: Black and White Landscape (Basic Editing*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Martinez, California, USA
Date: Apr 20, 2010
Aperture: 2.80
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/650
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Apr 24, 2010

 Mount Diablo with a layer of strato-cumulus barely lit by the early evening sun, taken from a freeway on-ramp.

-Handheld, Auto mode
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Green Channel Curve
-Channel Mixer in Monochrome mode
-Crop (mostly from bottom) to 2:1 aspect ratio
-Resize
-Grayscale Mode
-USM at 8%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 7 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 102KB

File: Ramp_P4200019gsDPC.jpg

Similarly-processed panoramic version of the same scene stitched from three frames with AutoStitch:



[Apr. 27th, 2010 01:23:25 PM]

Resized original: [thumb]874784[/thumb]

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Avg (commenters): 5.3333
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Views during voting: 240
Votes: 152
Comments: 4
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2010 04:15:03 AM
There might be just a little too much sky showing here. The clouds end up cutting this picture almost in half.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2010 08:27:07 AM
would like to see more land...less sky..but you have nice vibrant tones
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/26/2010 11:02:41 AM
nice job on capturing the clouds; since this is a landscape I believe I would have adjusted my camera to capture more of the land; elimanting the less dramatic part of the sky
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/26/2010 07:22:57 AM
The clouds prepare for battle...
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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