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Three Travellers Cross Paths on the Sand
Three Travellers Cross Paths on the Sand
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sand II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF Macro for Canon
Location: Tallacre Beach, Prestatyn, Wales
Date: Jun 10, 2012
Aperture: 10.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 256
Galleries: Seascapes, Photo-Impressionism
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2012

 Infrared filter, four and a bit minute exposure.

Started off with what looked like apparently selective colour, blue sky (apparently badly selected) which would actually have been legal in basic editing. This was shot with white balance set to the sand, then mucked around with in channel mixer, no selections made whatsoever. However i didn't really like how that looked, and ended up hue-based desaturating everything BUT the blue, then simulating a yellow filter by taking just the blue channel. Then some dodging and burning to emphasise the already very contrasty sky and that whole drama and bring out the vignette some more. Finally a conversion to duotone going for a sepia effect - in fact tritone - with laboriously played about with curves, the spot colours i chose were gold and orange - 165CV and 157CV. The idea is to emphasise the sandy feel of the image.

Alternate titles were to do with "three very different travellers" or vague waffle about different sorts of footprints in the sand, but it was all a bit too existential and the title began to turn into an essay, so i tried to keep it short.

The less-obvious third traveller, the shadow to the right of the lighthouse, is in fact a bystander who wandered into the shot - being too late to stop him, i thought he might create an interesting effect. A more interesting effect if i left him alone, than if i'd tried to remove him from the scene at the time, which would probably have just resulted in an indignant-looking shadow instead of a neutral-postured one.

The guy on top of the lighthouse is made of metal.

The girl on the left is not, and was in a great deal of discomfort for four minutes.

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 72
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Votes: 92
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 06/18/2012 02:47:59 PM
I love all of your decisions except the vignette. You overdid that.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 06/17/2012 11:17:33 PM
I like the ancient feeling
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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 06/17/2012 09:10:14 PM
Great PP, but is that horizon straight?? Bumping to a 9.
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 06/16/2012 09:17:31 PM
Very nice image. Neat lighthouse.
Apple iPhone 15 Pro
 06/16/2012 12:22:26 PM
Funky and eyecatching image.
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Nikon Z7II
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 06/16/2012 10:48:46 AM
Really like this; would like it better without the person on the left; draws my eye away from the rest, which is awesome. (voted earlier)
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 06/12/2012 02:36:30 PM
I like the thought and concept, perhaps the vignetting is a bit much.
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 06/12/2012 12:12:04 PM
Best in show award, congrats
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 06/11/2012 10:24:37 AM
This is great!!
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