Standing on the end of a sandbar. Tripod, remote release. 5D + 24-70L @ 46mm.
This was shot on my trip to Sedona with Steve Davidson on March 18, 2006.
Processing details:
- RAW conversion in CS3/ACR 4.0 to 16-bit TIF
- Tonemapping in Photomatix Pro
- Cropped
- Cloned out a dust bunny and a few very small branches at upper left
- USM
- Curves (global and selective)
- Gentle application of hue/saturation
- Convert to 8-bits/channel
- Resize, bicubic & bicubic sharper
- USM
- Large radius USM for slight boost of local contrast
- Save for web
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okay , nice photo and landscape but it lacks subtle shadow/highlight processing since here a lot of very bright parts and some very dark parts, the water looks okay ... and i guess it's little bit oversharpen.