Couldn’t find any gold in the ground, or golden haired beauties wanting to model for me, (This Isn’t Iceland. Ha Ha) so picked on mother nature to produce some gold, and join the battle in the sky.
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Removed Small distracting crane, and power pole on horizon.
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I really think this was a favorite of mine, as I just loved that sky, as we have some magic skies here in Australia.....
I dream of skies like this, and we are so fortunite to wake up and see them often, or look at, as the sun fades in the evening, to see them all again.....
I just love the Australian golden colors, we see so much everywhere we look.....
One of the really lovely golden clouds/sky images in the challenge.....
The golden glow is just stunning and the thumbnail just "pops".....
I do hope it does well in the challenge.....
There's some color banding going on here (watch the colors as they circle outward towards the edges). Most likely the image is shot in jpeg mode and then individual colors (rather than all colors) were boosted in a hue/sat layer (or equivalent).
Ways to fight banding: 1) Shoot in raw, edit in 16-bit mode, 2) boost all colors (or at least adjacent colors, e.g. both blue & cyan together), 3) don't boost the color so much, 4) sometimes NeatImage (or equivalent) can cause it, so watch the color output, 5) sometimes reducing the image size for web can cause it (best bet is PhotoShop's "Save for Web").
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