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P&S Day 10 - Wetlands
P&S Day 10 - Wetlands
JuliBoc


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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Location: Delray Beach, FL
Date: Apr 28, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2008

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 Simple pp: sharpen, contrast, increased the saturation of blue and yellow to add sun and make the flowers (pickerelweed) look the way I saw them. (I masked the water, sky, and boardwalk on the hue/sat layer.)

This web version is a bit disappointing, because the quality was compromised by the file size. At 720 pixels and 200kb the quality was 50%. I changed it to 640 pixels and 200kb, which gave me only 60% quality. It seems to have lost some of it's punch.

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 05/01/2008 11:57:32 PM
I understand the problem with image file size here at DPC. A photo that has all the rich little details like this one must have, gets quite busy looking when you make it posting sized for DPC. I try to keep my challenge shots simple for that reason.
That's a beautiful pond.
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 05/01/2008 11:11:37 PM
Very real limitations in the compression. Often you can tell how much better a (non-winning!) photo would look at higher resolution, but this one truly suffers. It would be nice if you could post a crop at higher resolution.
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 05/01/2008 08:43:24 PM
the layers of greens from the grasses and plants would sure look good at full resolution

i have noticed the same thing with complex shots - they don't hold up well to compression and size restrictions - i guess you remind me that i need to stay very simple to score well here at DPC
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 04/30/2008 09:49:00 PM
I've had some very similar experiences--I create a richly colorful, detailed comp & when it saves for web it becomes something else. Which leads me to wonder if that's not the explanation for why so many of the winning photos on competition sites seem simplified to my eye. Hm. Interesting thought. On this ViewSonic monitor the greens are fabulous but I'm loosing the flowers unless I zoom in by getting my eyes closer to the screen. It's good to experiment.
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 04/30/2008 10:46:29 AM
This is beautiful! It looks like a painting.
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 04/30/2008 10:23:39 AM
What a beautiful photo, really nice to look at
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