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Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet
LalliSig


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Challenge: Free Study XVII (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM
Location: Reykjanestá, Iceland
Date: Aug 12, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Aug 12, 2007

 Aw crap, was not feeling too well this weekend (got a bad cold) and alongs comes a free study. Well I couldn´t really skip it since one of my goals this year was to enter all free studies, even though it is an irregular-speed free study I couldn´t skip it with good conscience. Well at sunday evening I had not taken a single photo except a wedding yesterday and I didn´t really feel like entering one of those photos, not cause they were bad, far from it but rather I didn´t want to enter something so private in a challenge here without asking permission and I didn´t really feel like calling up the couple on their first day as husband and wife to ask them something trivial like this.

I thus decided to do something easy that didn´t require much effort and just drove out to this spot on Reykjanes with my buddy indridistefans and take a landscape photo, haven´t entered a landscape photo on DPC since may and getting a bit rusty :) Took this about 1 hour after sunset.

Used a polarizer on the sky. Otherwise pretty standard editing, made two files out of a single raw exposure and blended together for greater dynamic range. I then did some shadow highlights, slight dodge/burn, added vignetting with a curves layer, contrast with curves, cropped to a 7:4 ratio and sharpened+added border after resizing.

Am predicting some negative comments about the halo along the top of the cliffs and around the lighthouse in the upper left corner, could have easily corrected that but frankly I like it just the way it is :P

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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 08/20/2007 03:26:53 AM
stunning Larus...should have finished higher...can't believe you only had a handful of comments through the challenge
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Olympus Stylus Verve Digital
 08/15/2007 01:09:24 AM
this is an amazing picture! i enjoy everything about this photo, the rocks look beautiful and you can see every little detail in most of them, the water also looks nice, almost like gaseous.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 08/14/2007 11:30:39 PM
Strong on the blues but I still like it.....
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Nikon D3s
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 08/13/2007 02:32:58 PM
beautiful shot..nice pp
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/13/2007 09:28:46 AM
Editing was overdone.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 08/13/2007 02:05:17 AM
This looks beautiful!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 08/13/2007 12:29:36 AM
beautiful...a ghostlike image...well done 8
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