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Lonely Skeleton
Lonely Skeleton
giantmike


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Negative Space IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM
Location: Verona, WI
Date: Mar 1, 2011
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Mar 1, 2011

I wasn't going to enter this challenge, but after racking my brain for ideas for the batteries challenge, I came up empty. So on the final day of this challenge, I finally started to think about ideas, and this is the best I could come up with. We'll see what this attitude results in.

This is taken at a spot which I have taken a number of photos. Most notably a night time shot that I'm very proud of. I actually took three bracketed exposures, with every intent to HDR the scene, but then I realized it was a basic editing challenge, so that was out.

Post Processing:
* Crop
* White Balance
* Recovery
* Black Point
* Highlights
* Topaz DeNoise
* Topaz Adjust
* Topaz Detail
* S-curve
* Export to TIFF
* Resize to 800px
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

P.S. Here is the HDR version, which I actually like quite a bit better.

Statistics
Place: 24 out of 167
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Avg (commenters): 6.0000
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Views since voting: 1059
Views during voting: 254
Votes: 172
Comments: 3
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/04/2011 12:36:22 PM
Love the texture the clouds in the sky make. Great point of view and nicely composed.
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03/04/2011 01:44:37 AM
Nice image, would have been great if you had taken a few steps back or zoomed out a bit, I feel like Im too cramped in the shot, more sky would have really scored high. well done though nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/02/2011 01:40:07 PM
The sky is too beautiful to be called negative space. It does adds to the image because it's so gorgeous, to the wow effect.. Beautiful photo.
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