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Challenge: Minimalist Landscape III (Standard Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f1.2 L
Location: Almeria
Date: Feb 15, 2017
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Feb 22, 2017

 Trying out the 50mm f/1.2L for landscape work; it has low (but non-zero) distortion making it great for straight lines, and what distortion remains is easy to correct in postprocessing. It also gets pretty sharp when stopped down to a reasonable aperture - although one thing to watch out for is that it never quite loses its tendency for purple fringing.

Editing: Distortion correction using lensfun. Cloning out sensor dust spots and distracting elements on the water. Curves to increase the general contrast while leaving the colours alone (for once). Wavelet decompose, and gaussian blur on the base layer in the flat areas of water and sky, as well as suppressing the largest detail scale in the water, and suppressing all but the largest detail scales to reduce noise in the sky. Resize, and three-level selective sharpen to bring out the details of the shore without haloing.

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Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS
 03/03/2017 09:47:32 AM
Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that meets the challenge

A very calm and tranquil scene that would soothe anyone in the room in which it was hanging. The blue of the sea is a nice contrast against that of the variegated sky. The composition is good with the sky very clearly emphasised. If I’m really pedantic, which is what I’m here for folks, there are a couple of minor issues. First their appears to be faint banding in the sky, most noticeable in the mid blues. And secondly the horizon has a very slight tilt to the left. They both have to be looked for very hard so they are not detrimental to the image.
Canon EOS-80D
 03/03/2017 12:32:50 AM
You captured a beautiful shot with your new lens.
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