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Challenge: Landscape VI (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: May 6, 2012
Aperture: 5.02
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/159
Date Uploaded: May 6, 2012

 Orinda valley from Grizzly Peak, with Mount Diablo in the background.

-Handheld, manual mode
-Graduated ND filter
-FL 36mm (35mm EQ)
-Various RGB Curves through masks to even-out/enhance lighting
-A little dodging to clouds
-Crop from bottom to 3:2 aspect ratio
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM a 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 273KB

File: Orinda_IMG_9579-DPC9

Statistics
Place: 88 out of 134
Avg (all users): 5.1716
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0758
Avg (non-participants): 5.2330
Views since voting: 585
Views during voting: 267
Votes: 169
Comments: 2
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II
 05/15/2012 04:09:49 PM
Too much blaah sky for my taste.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D500
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 05/10/2012 06:25:11 AM
Nice contrasting colours, the rest rather uninteresting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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