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Pathway to Darkness
Pathway to Darkness
giantmike


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Challenge: Painting With Light IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Jul 23, 2011
Aperture: 5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 107
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 24, 2011

 Astute observers may recognize this place as the location for my much lower scoring that I expected Obvious Tripod entry:

This time I'm a bit further from the trees so that we can see the path curving along as I walked with a flashlight pointing at the center of the path. I'm not really expecting this one to do much better than the Obvious Tripod entry, but in both shots a learned a lot about light painting, especially with my dog constantly trying to ruin the shot.

Post Processing:
* Increase exposure
* Decrease black point
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast and definition
* Increase saturation and vibrancy
* Increase shadows (With high radius, high color correction, increase mid contrast, and low tonal width to help control the effect)
* Topaz DeNoise
* White Balance
* Increase exposure with lower vibrancy
* Noise reduction on the path
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 52
Avg (all users): 6.3788
Avg (commenters): 8.2000
Avg (participants): 6.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.5051
Views since voting: 2252
Views during voting: 318
Votes: 132
Comments: 8
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/31/2011 09:08:00 PM
Nice!!! Great finish too. Better than your last effort :-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/31/2011 05:42:16 PM
et didn't phone home, he lit out all on his own.
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 07/31/2011 04:13:43 PM
Well done. Nice tones and fabulous sky.
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 07/31/2011 01:36:07 PM
Bump up to 9.
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 07/29/2011 09:03:55 AM
Looks like the light of a ghost motorcycle. Cropping out the bear branches of the right side (distracts from the piece) would make this a pretty awesome post-card of a road trip.
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 07/26/2011 03:20:06 PM
coolest one I have seen so far.... nice idea!!
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 07/25/2011 05:56:22 PM
Besides the Light paint, this shot is so very pretty, love the richness to the colors! 15 min exposure??
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 07/25/2011 08:18:42 AM
A bit of a jog, was it?
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