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Challenge: Water III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Pentax
Location: Benicia State Park, CA
Date: Apr 9, 2008
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125, 1/250, 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 13, 2008

 Managed to sneak out for a quick afternoon walk out to the headlands in the state park near my house; set up a tripod and shot some pics in the late afternoon sun, but before it got too low in the horizon to turn into a sunset shot.

HDR from three RAW images in Photmatix, processed to BW in PSE 5.0. Sh/hilite, levels, big contrast boost, dual hue/sat layers with color channel lightness adjustments, high pass filter, resize, USM, neat image, gauss blur, bump brightness, border, s4w.

Played around in photomatix a bit with this one, and ended up going with the BW version because the color one looked too processed to my eye.

IMGP1827-28-29-BWver2-720

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/20/2008 03:06:34 PM
Stunning shot. Beautifully presented.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 04/19/2008 02:56:22 AM
I love the drama of this wonderful black and white.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 04/18/2008 06:49:02 AM
Works very well in black and white. (The frame is distracting me from a composition I quite like.)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 04/17/2008 12:10:43 AM
Very pretty (9)
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Konica Minolta A2
 04/16/2008 07:59:40 PM
A very nice use of black and white!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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