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Black Forest
Black Forest
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Challenge: Branch (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE X20
Location: Iowa
Date: Sep 3, 2005
Aperture: 1:2.9
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/45 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Sep 6, 2005

 When my dad went to college, he called these 4-5 evergreen trees the "Black Forest." Apparently when drunk people came back from the bars at night, they would get lost in these trees. I find it really funny, especially since there are only 5 of them! I had a few pictures similar to this one as a vertical picture, but for some reason I liked this one a lot better in the horizontal format.

I basically just cropped it then messed with the colors - contrast, saturation, lighting

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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon
 09/13/2005 10:51:45 PM
nice perspective - i like it as well as the texture of the tree;
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Canon PowerShot Pro1
 09/13/2005 09:09:26 PM
ummm... a little to much contrast....
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Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
 09/13/2005 06:15:54 PM
Was this actually taken in the Black Forest? I used to live there... Good lighting above the tree.

Message edited by author 2005-09-15 19:47:37.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 11:53:53 AM
rotate
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Canon PowerShot Pro1
 09/12/2005 07:47:56 PM
I like the colors but it seems oversaturated.
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Canon EOS-1D X
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 09/10/2005 07:48:03 PM
A bit too contrasty in the foreground...not sure if it's the reflection or if it is intentional.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Kodak CX7300
 09/09/2005 07:32:48 PM
Really Really cool picture it is really neat!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nikon D700
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO IF for Nikon
 09/08/2005 09:08:44 PM
interesting.
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Olympus C-770UZ
 09/08/2005 06:17:09 PM
A bit overexposed. The light coming through the branches overwhelms some of them.
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 09/08/2005 04:27:46 PM
nice to see at least one photo with the trunk starting at the side while looking straight up.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 09/08/2005 05:54:12 AM
Nice image, but it makes me dizzy. Very cool effect of the branches, but maybe a bit OOF and needing a different or tighter crop. Still a good shot.
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Nikon Coolpix 3700
 09/08/2005 04:35:45 AM
Would be stronger in this challenge with the trunk cropped out, and rotate 90° to the right.
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Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 09/07/2005 06:37:24 PM
Boring, and busy, at the same time if that makes any sense. There is just nothing to set it apart and the colors are all deep in the boring range.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 L IS USM
 09/07/2005 01:12:39 PM
not much in focus here, although i see that its meant to be abstract, but the fuzziness is a bit hard on the eyes
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III
 09/07/2005 04:57:02 AM
nice shot, just seems a bit out of focus
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Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Panasonic DMW-LTZ10 1.5x Teleconverter
 09/07/2005 01:13:35 AM
Nice, it has an almost sureal or animal look to it. Quite evocative - 7
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