One of those ideas that hit me the day before the challenge ended, and I got lucky that the weather that night was perfect for the shot. This really is the sun and a cloud on the background. I used f/32 to get it in as good of focus as possible. Later I thought about focus stacking, but live and learn!
Post Processing:
* White Balance
* Crop
* Clone out some sensor dust
* Increase recovery
* Decrease black point
* In sky: decrease contrast, increase definition, increase saturation and vibrancy
* Topaz DeNoise
* Topaz Adjust
* Increase saturation slightly
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG
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Creative........I was like....ok.....why does the Sahara have mountains and why are they so regular and even......then OMG.......I'm NOT a Valley Gurl...I'm a "keywhiz"! 10
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