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Challenge: HDR (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Cochiti Lake, New Mexico
Date: Nov 12, 2006
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/1250 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Nov 12, 2006

 This is Cochiti Lake where I used to go as a child. It was cool to see again.

Shot in RAW: saved as a 16-bit TIF, NI in PS, tone-mapped in Photomatix

PS:
Crop
Hue/Saturation
Brightness/Contrast
Sponge tool on water and sky
Dodge all over the place
Resize
Sharpen
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 53 out of 84
Avg (all users): 5.5017
Avg (commenters): 6.1111
Avg (participants): 5.3409
Avg (non-participants): 5.5304
Views since voting: 1012
Views during voting: 504
Votes: 291
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon
11/17/2006 06:16:30 AM
This is a good example of the technique.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 12 Pro
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM
 11/15/2006 05:28:57 PM
This is very familiar but I can't quite place it. The mesas, the mountains, the shrubbery. Lovely image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 11/15/2006 04:47:31 PM
super-sharp. nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 11/14/2006 12:09:21 PM
stay away from having the horizon right in the center of a photo it is hard to find a landscape where both are equally interesting.
Sony DSC-F717
 11/13/2006 09:05:07 PM
Quite nice, great sky and lake...mountains in the background are distant but impressive.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D4
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II
 11/13/2006 04:23:53 PM
I voted this photo a 6. I thought the highlights and shadows were brought together nicely. I wasnt too fond of the noisey appearanc ethat it seems to have. I'm not sure whats causing it weather it was ISO or something that happened in PP or resizing. I can see it mainly in the sky. Overall nicely done for meeting the challenge. Well done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 11/13/2006 02:51:38 PM
Use of Light:1
Focus:1
Composition:1
Creativity:1
Achieves Challenge:2

Challenging photo opportunity saved by HDR. Good job using HDR to give good contrast in the foreground and not allowing the sky to get blown out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
 11/13/2006 10:36:43 AM
Nice scene to work with (though maybe a boat is needed on the water).

As far as the HDR processing goes I think it's a little over done as there are many areas that appear oversharpened (in the fore and middleground bright areas.
Canon EOS-30D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 11/13/2006 07:58:13 AM
the sky still sems to be lacking something.
it seems flat and not very dynamic.
a nice view though.
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