I took this photo during a break in a week long rainstorm. It was early evening and the overcast produced a picture was a blue grey sky. I took 5 photos to work with to try and pull out some of the nicer details using Thumbs Plus Pro for post processing.
This included in this order:
Minor stretch of color channels and a minor balance of colors. I then did an equalization of channels. I then lowered the gamma from 1.30 to 1.13. Next I lowered the hue by -7, the saturation was upped by +40, the lightness was reduced by -20 and the contrast went up by +40. After this processing the noise was ugly so I then used TP’s median edge sensitive noise filter in a 7 pixel diameter on all channels. I then used just a touch of Neatimage. I then cropped the image to size. I ran out of time before I could get Photoshop 7 to work properly! I intended to use it to bring out the details in Mt. Burdell in the lower right corner of the photo. It’s the second highest ‘Peak’ in Marin County California. I then made ready with a contingency photo just in case… and as it turned out I had to submit that one knowing that the Gamma adjustment on MANY monitors was going to kill its chances for a decent placement in the challenge... as is noted in a number of the comments left.
Shooting details:
Original date/time: 2005:02:16 16:43:47
Exposure time: 1/344.30
F-stop: 5.6
Focal length: 20.0000
Flash: Not fired
Orientation: Top-left
Light source: Unknown
Exposure bias: 0.0000
Metering mode: Pattern
Exposure program: Normal
Nikon ISO HI mode: 0
Nikon quality: FINE
Nikon white balance: AUTO
Nikon sharpening: AUTO
Nikon focus mode: AF-C
Nikon image adjustment: AUTO
Nikon digital zoom: 1.0000
Camera make: NIKON
Camera model: E995
X resolution: 300.0000
Y resolution: 300.0000
Resolution unit: Inches
Colorspace: sRGB
File source: DSC
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Place: 91 out of 182 Avg (all users): 5.3616 Avg (commenters): 5.8571 Avg (participants): 5.1735 Avg (non-participants): 5.5079 Views since voting: 1244 Views during voting: 403 Votes: 224 Comments: 17 Favorites: 1 (view)
very pretty shot with lots of nice colors but I'm forced to ask where the earth? Without the earth in the shot as a noticable element Iam unable to associate this with separation.. As is without the title I would have no clue what separation you were trying to portray. No separation but a great shot. 6
This is fantastically beautiful and dreamlike. It's much more "sky" than "earth", though, and it's hard to read it as an earth/sky separation. Even so, a very strong entry and I score it high.
The title is good! As the picture was loading I thought I would see some mountains, or some pice of land on the lower part. I would have cropped it that way.
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