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Planet Earth: Solid Pewter Sky
Planet Earth: Solid Pewter Sky
Dr.Confuser


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: In The Style Of: bspurgeon (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Location: Yarrow Point, WA USA (Lake Washington)
Date: Jul 12, 2011
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 800
Shutter: Various
Galleries: Sky, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Jul 14, 2011

 Photographer’s Notes
One great thing about living on a lakeshore is I get unobstructed views of sky and in the Pacific Northwest we get some GREAT skies. We get some month-long-leaden-soggy-softbox-skies as well, but Tuesday we had a great sky. Maybe the most interesting thing about the planet is its skies.


Post Processing
• Composite 7 Originals to HDR (Photomatix)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Overlay Layer)
• Remove Sensor Dust (PSCS5 Clone Layer)
• Remove Noise (Neat Image)
• Blur (PSCS5 Blur Layer – masked)
• Lighten (PSCS5 Curves Layer)
• Contrast (PSCS5 Multiply Layer)
• Lighten More (PSCS5 Curves Layer)
• Desaturate (PSCS5 Hue/Sat Layer)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Overlay Layer)
• Resize (PSCS5)
• Save for Web (PSCS5)

Camera Data
• Date: 2011-07-12
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
• ISO: 800
• Aperture: f/9
• Shutter: Various (7 originals from 1/320 to 1/15 handheld)

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 156
Avg (all users): 6.0092
Avg (commenters): 7.4545
Avg (participants): 5.9200
Avg (non-participants): 6.2059
Views since voting: 1131
Views during voting: 219
Votes: 109
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/21/2011 01:57:00 PM
Aptly titled and a beautiful photo.
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 07/20/2011 07:36:51 AM
I wish you'd totally desated this image, because the two touches of yellow, in the middle of the clouds and at the horizon, are incredibly distracting. That said, amazing sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2011 04:47:04 PM
Beautiful, draws me in.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2011 04:37:55 PM
Wow. Landscape. Hell yea! 9
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 07/18/2011 09:39:48 PM
Dramatic sky. Makes me small, but full of wonder.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2011 03:47:38 AM
great sky, lots of textures and tones on this
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/17/2011 09:20:21 AM
Very dramatic, indeed!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2011 11:12:19 AM
Nice coloring & tone. Feels simultaneously dark & soft. I looked at this for several moments before even noticing the water- interesting choice of crop to only give 1/10th of the image to the water? The main black cloud reminds me of the 'the nothing' via 'The Never Ending Story'
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2011 11:12:12 AM
Very dramatic sky.
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 07/16/2011 09:15:37 AM
I love the tones you used here and the little bit of sun showing through the clouds really makes the image, imo. (voted earlier)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2011 06:06:08 AM
Amazing cloudscape.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2011 07:22:15 PM
A fairy tale sky. Ben is good with fairy tales.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2011 10:17:14 AM
You don't typically think of Ben doing skies, yet I looked at his portfolio again and you are spot on. I'm crazy for the clouds. I love how it is almost the entire shot with a touch of land to ground it. Good luck. 7
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 07/14/2011 11:29:27 PM
amazing shot!
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