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Beach House at Night
Beach House at Night
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Challenge: Lighting III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: Groton, CT
Date: Oct 17, 2006
Aperture: f 4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 4.5 seconds
Galleries: Landscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Oct 17, 2006

 Taken at Eastern Point Beach in Groton, CT. It was not easy getting this shot. Not from a technical perspective, just timing. I knew early in the week that I wanted to get this shot, and what time I would need to take it to get the lighting from the sodium vapor street light. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to take the shot until the last night of the challenge. And, of course, it's raining. Between trying to keep the lens dry, and worrying about my young daughter sitting in the car, I only had about 15 minutes to set up and shoot, before I had to pick up my son at Cub Scouts.

I had taken this same shot during last winter on a clear crisp day. The sky looked much different, and came out a nice deep blue. The two captures evoke a much different feel, just because of the color of the skies.

Took in Raw, and converted in Photoshop. Slight image rotation to fix my crooked horizon, cropped tighter, applied a levels adjustment layer, then a color adjustment layer, then a channels mixer layer to get the right saturation in each channel. Flattened image. Finally, resized for web viewing, then sharpened.

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Place: 90 out of 311
Avg (all users): 5.6737
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
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Avg (non-participants): 5.9007
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Nikon Z9
Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
 10/24/2006 03:55:55 PM
Meets Challenge: 10
Lighting/Processing: 8
Composition: 6
Overall Impression: 8
"WOW" factor: 7

Average Score: 7.8
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED VR
 10/23/2006 08:13:53 AM
Nice light - Nice photo overall. Would love to see more of the building.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 10/21/2006 09:18:48 AM
How pretty! I love the golden glow that the light makes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 10/19/2006 11:26:36 PM
nice clean image
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Pentax *ist DL
Tamron AF 28-200mm f/3.8-5.6 Aspherical XR IF Super Zoom for Pentax
 10/19/2006 01:41:03 PM
Wow, what did you use to the sky so black? Nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/18/2006 07:55:28 AM
Has a soporific, eery quality...nicely captured
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Canon PowerShot S2 IS
 10/18/2006 07:02:53 AM
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