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El Capital
El Capital
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Ansel Adams (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3000
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Date: Mar 5, 2005
Aperture: f4.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/150
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 5, 2005

 Photo of Salisbury Craigs taken from St. Leonards. This is a basalt rock formation, the remains of an extinct volcano, including the famous peak, Arthur's Seat (see my portfolio for a recent picture - Edinburgh Skyline II). All of this is, bizarrely, right in the heart of Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, even though it could pass for Yosemite if you squinted!. I had the length of time it takes two 4 year-old girls to finish a packet of crisps to take this because my daughter and her friend were sitting in the car waiting for me to take them to a dinosaur exhibition. The wind was strong and kindly blew some pretty clouds into view as well as blowing others away from the sun to highlight the rockface fleetingly.

Curves, crop, USM.
Monochrome channel mixer (100% red, -100% blue, upped green until just below blowing highlights)
Burnt left hand clouds, bottom right of image and added some definition to clouds. Dodged highlights of clouds.

Statistics
Place: 68 out of 292
Avg (all users): 5.8814
Avg (commenters): 6.4545
Avg (participants): 5.8571
Avg (non-participants): 5.9151
Views since voting: 1400
Votes: 253
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 11/22/2005 07:03:13 AM
Look's like there could be some nice climbing there too... no squinting required :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D70s
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
 03/13/2005 10:08:05 PM
Composition: 7
Technical: 7
Appeal: 7, Nice dark sky to contrast with white clouds
Challenge: 7
Overall Calculated Average Score: 7
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Canon EOS-30D
Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
 03/12/2005 06:51:29 AM
Good shot. Would have liked to have the foreground burned some more to draw theye into the foreground abit more. Nice dark sky.
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SiPix Blink
 03/12/2005 05:00:47 AM
Great sky, but I feel that the trees in the foreground are a little lost.
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Canon EOS-5D
Tokina AF 28-70mm f/2.8 ATX Pro-SV for Canon EOS
 03/11/2005 06:57:47 PM
Very nice mountain shot! It seems a little dark in places on my monitor.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 03/11/2005 05:56:14 PM
Nice shot but I'd prefer it without the trees. It would be more pure...
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OM System OM-1
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 03/11/2005 02:04:23 PM
very nice
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/11/2005 10:28:43 AM
I really like this one. Good choice in waiting for the light to hit the rock face and leaving the hillside dark. Nice framing trees in the foreground.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Olympus 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Zuiko Digital Zoom
 03/10/2005 12:01:56 PM
Great subject. Found sky and foreground too dark.
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Nikon D4s
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 03/09/2005 09:50:11 PM
Beautiful
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Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 03/08/2005 11:09:05 AM
Great shot.
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Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 03/08/2005 07:14:40 AM
Very nice.
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