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Winter Dreams & Lace Fantasies
Winter Dreams & Lace Fantasies
Dr.Confuser


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Challenge: Landscape At Night (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED
Location: Yarrow Point, Washington (USA)
Date: Jan 13, 2012
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 2000
Shutter: Various
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Jan 14, 2012

Photographer’s Notes
Quick grab of a spectacular sunset. Better than my photo, actually.

Post Processing
• Merge to HDR (Photomatix)
• Tone Map (Photomatix)
• Brighten (PSCS5 Curves Layer)
• Darken Foreground (PSCS5 Overlay Layer)
• Remove Distractions (PSCS5 Clone Layer)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Overlay Layer)
• Crop (PSCS5)
• Resize (Perfect Resize)
• Save for Web (PSCS5)

Camera Data
• Date: 2012.01.13
• Camera Data: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED
• ISO: 2000
• Aperture: f/5
• Shutter: Various

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 77
Avg (all users): 6.3889
Avg (commenters): 7.7000
Avg (participants): 5.7692
Avg (non-participants): 6.5409
Views since voting: 1263
Views during voting: 430
Votes: 198
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0


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01/30/2012 03:49:00 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

So, Doc, we meet again...muwahahhahaahahhhh...

Artistic: Very colourful and textures are fantastic for something as amorphous as clouds. Just coming into twilight, I'd say, so the purists probably voted you down for not having star trails or the moon visible. Ah well. Their loss.

Technical: I like the light here and the dreaminess captured. The comp is a little straightforward but it isn't hurting the image. Just not extreme in any way. But an image like this shouldn't need extreme POVs to make it. Nice amount of pp, doesn't look overdone despite all the steps listed.

Overall: I think your final score and placing say it all. Great work, keep it up!

Feel free to PM me,

Susan
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01/24/2012 10:17:39 PM
sweet.
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01/24/2012 09:04:05 PM
Beautiful! I'm so sorry I missed the sunset that night, I was stuck in the optometrist's office with my daughter at the time. I noticed the sky colour at around 3.30 pm and told the kids that there would be a great sunset!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/24/2012 06:54:49 PM
like a tapestry.... so pretty.
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01/24/2012 01:41:13 PM
Very nice! Doesn't really look like a "night shot" though. The detail in the clouds suggest a relatively short shutter speed. Looks sunset-ish. Still a beautiful shot though. (voted earlier)
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01/24/2012 07:53:23 AM
What a sky !
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01/24/2012 06:19:57 AM
Love those clouds.
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01/24/2012 03:37:56 AM
Although it is dramatic, the bright yellow orange may be distracting. I do give the image high marks though, for the pillowy sky and wispy tree branches.
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01/23/2012 09:17:45 PM
those square crops are really huge, Doc.
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01/23/2012 08:45:51 PM
The textures in the sky and tree really makes this image! And those tones just compliment everything. Very very nice!
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01/18/2012 03:50:37 PM
wow, now that's a fantastic sky!
(voted earlier)
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01/18/2012 11:36:02 AM
I love this shot, very serene.
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01/17/2012 09:02:13 PM
Gorgeous colours, nice work
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01/17/2012 07:17:25 PM
Fine silhouette. Sort of close to the sun horizon event for this challenge, but it's a clear and colorful image.
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