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The Candle's in the Bag (Luminaria)
The Candle's in the Bag (Luminaria)
Ristyz


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Candlelight (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
Location: Mesa Verde Ntl Park, Colorado
Date: Dec 8, 2005
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 30 seconds
Galleries: Landscape, Travel
Date Uploaded: Dec 9, 2005

 100% Pure Candlelight. Mesa Verde National Park kicked off it's 100 year celebration with a special Holiday Ruin viewing. The trail to Spruce Tree House Cliff Dwelling was lined with Luminaria. Luminaria are candles inside paper bags, a southwestern holiday tradition. (sometimes called Farolitos)

30 Second exposure @ f5.0 ISO 400

Quite a bit of work here:

Converted from RAW to TIFF with some small adjustments to shadows, contrast color & touch of sharpening during conversion.

Levels & Saturation

created layer: top layer, gaussian blur in overlay mode Bottom layer, lightened, levels Saturation Flattened

Created new layer: Bottom, Levels for sky color and erased through top layer to see adjusted sky Flattened

Created new layer; Bottom, levels to "green up" tree and erased through top layer to show that adjusment Flattened

Cloned out hot pixels
converted to 8 bits
110% several times to enlarge
Image size to 360dpi, no resample, save
Image size again to 8x12 at 360dpi, save as
Image size again to 4x6 at 150dpi save as jpg
Image size again to 427x640 at 150 dpi
save for web

Whew! Hope you all like it!! It was very cold!

Statistics
Place: 10 out of 160
Avg (all users): 6.3029
Avg (commenters): 7.7857
Avg (participants): 6.1591
Avg (non-participants): 6.4083
Views since voting: 3417
Views during voting: 349
Votes: 208
Comments: 16
Favorites: 3 (view)

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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/19/2005 03:48:47 AM
A very nice composition with a lovely perpective winding. Congratulations on your top 10 finish.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5
Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 12/19/2005 01:56:56 AM
I knew this would end up in the top ten (I hoped you would get a ribbon) - it is so lovely! You did a wonderful job with this.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/18/2005 09:22:29 PM
Very nice effect. The luminaries draw you in.
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/18/2005 08:08:19 PM
Loved this one! The eye naturally follows the path, and the colors are wonderful, they also highlight the differing textures, which to me is a big plus.
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/18/2005 04:33:27 PM
nice leading lines - the cliff alomost looks like a face - strong entry - good luck !
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Pentax K-30
Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR
 12/17/2005 07:51:24 PM
What a beautiful shot! I love the way you have the candle lines leading the eye into the shot and the dark of the hillside balancing the brightness of the path.
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Canon PowerShot A510
 12/14/2005 10:34:27 PM
wow!! this looks very cool, i like how its curvy and the rocks look simply majestic!
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 12/14/2005 02:59:56 AM
Nice tradition...8
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/13/2005 11:42:25 PM
Very excellent shot, the lighting of the path is perfect.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 12/13/2005 10:54:04 PM
Wow these really did brighten up this area. Great idea!
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/13/2005 02:06:03 PM
A tad over exposed with the bags but a winning image all the same and certainly a top 5.
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 12/13/2005 10:44:22 AM
This was my favorite Luminaria photo in the challenge. I love the curves in the path and the lighting on the rocks.
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Sony DSC-F828
 12/12/2005 11:22:20 PM
I like the depth to this and the lines.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm FinePix 2800Z
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f2.8D
 12/12/2005 03:14:12 PM
6 - Met the Challenge quite well in my opinion - "Use candlelight to create the impact of your photo.". Criticism; difficult, perhaps a tighter/more selective crop at the top and more 'enhancing' of the 'lights', somehow (camera dependent perhaps), may have made this better in my opinion.
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Canon EOS-20D
Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Canon
 12/12/2005 12:30:29 PM
This is beautiful. What an eerie little path. It would be nice to see a little more sky in this shot, but I don't know if that would be possible without a wider angle lens.
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Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 12/12/2005 01:09:06 AM
This winding magical pathway is illuminated with the soft glow of the candles that adorn the path. It really creates an invitation to the viewer to come follow the path around the bend as our eyes follow the trail of lights that curve off into the distance around the bend. Wonderful capture.
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