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Jamestown sunset
Jamestown sunset
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
Location: Conanicutt Island
Date: Apr 25, 2008
Aperture: f8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.3 sec
Date Uploaded: Apr 28, 2008

 This image was taken during a Jack Dykinga (the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer) four day workshop...it was an incredible experience, but exhausting getting up at 3:30am, then driving an hour or more to get to the locations by 5am in order to set up before sunrise, shooting until an hour after sunrise, critiquing until 2pm, eating lunch, driving to the evening shoot, shooting until dark and afterward, driving home, editing images for next morning critique until midnight, bed, then up in 3.5 hours..at my age, it's pretty tiring..haha. What a wonderful experience it was; Jack Dykinga is very easy to work with and extremely helpful and funny; he sees light and color and shape in a way that just amazes me...hopefully, I will retain some of what he taught us...last night I slept almost 12 hours; feeling pretty perky today...lived for 4 days on coffee to keep up my energy level...this was taken at sunset along a tree line, I found this tree with the interesting branch, showed it to Jack; he liked it!; I set up in front of it across a road, then he had the rest of the group come over to shoot it... curves, no cropping, healing brush to remove some sensor dust, selective color, usm

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 05/07/2008 10:54:21 PM
Pretty.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 05/06/2008 10:02:06 AM
Love thecolors you used and great capture!
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 05/05/2008 01:59:52 PM
Nice and pleasant. The silhouette of the tree frames it all nicely. It's a good shot, though not outstanding from a lot of other sunset shots.
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Canon EOS-60D
Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II
05/05/2008 01:49:19 AM
Nice silhoette and i am pleased you didnt crank up the saturation to make a bright red sky 7
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Canon EOS R7
Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD MACRO w/Canon Nikon mount
 05/03/2008 06:45:41 PM
nice shot, nice angles n the tree branch. maybe a tiny tad bit of saturation on the sky, but i mean a tiny tiny bit
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 05/01/2008 01:04:19 AM
I like where you're going with this silhouetted composition but somehow i find it too busy
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