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Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet
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Challenge: Landscape IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM
Location: Reykjanestá, Iceland
Date: Jul 8, 2008
Aperture: 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 15 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Jul 8, 2008

 Well, this was shot entirely because of a bet I made with Viktor, our photograpic intern at the ad firm I work at. He went to Þórsmörk that weekend, a landscape photographers paradise so he had a bit of an advantage as I had a wedding that saturday and another photoshot on sunday. I only got around to shoot for this challenge at about 11 pm on the last day and got home at around 1:30 am (wich was ok since we are 4 hours behind EST so the deadline was 4am here in Iceland).

Well the light was not perfect for this location but we had bet lunch over who won in this challenge so I was sure as hell going to enter something but I was very tired so I only spent about 5 minutes or so editing and coming up with a title. Have actually used this title for another shot from the same spot, shame on me... :)

Anyway as for editing, the sky was so much brighter than the foreground and since I couldn´t do no spot editing (basic editing rules of course) I had to darken it in raw conversion and then run several passes with shadow/highlights to then brighten the dark parts of the picture, leading to the ugly banding artefacts in the water. I then tweaked the colors both with color balance, curves and selective color and then used curves to increase contrast, resized and sharpened+added a black border.

Used a polarizer to get the funky partially darker sky on the left.

This is how the shot would have looked if I had edited within the advanced rules and had more time.



Statistics
Place: 44 out of 226
Avg (all users): 6.2186
Avg (commenters): 7.8000
Avg (participants): 5.7925
Avg (non-participants): 6.3923
Views since voting: 1512
Views during voting: 301
Votes: 183
Comments: 9
Favorites: 2 (view)

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 07/16/2008 01:50:25 AM
I'm with JesiLynR, this was one of my favourites as well.
Beautiful shot.
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Mamiya 645Pro TL
Mamiya 80mm f/2.8
 07/16/2008 12:05:07 AM
Agh, I totally thought this would ribbon, was definitely in my top 3 for this challenge. I still think it's an absolutely beautiful shot!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D300
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Nikon
 07/15/2008 06:48:45 PM
Very nice this blue with black. Are the lines waves? They are so straigh!
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Nikon D80
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
 07/14/2008 11:07:09 PM
One word...Stunning!!!!
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 07/14/2008 01:08:17 PM
This is very pretty and and an extraordinary effort for a Basic Editing Challenge.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ED-IF
 07/14/2008 08:12:01 AM
nice seascape
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Olympus PEN E-P3
Konica Minolta MF 85mm f/1.7
 07/10/2008 11:10:17 PM
this is nice but i can see gradient artifacts, or whatever you call them, in the water. still very nice.
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 07/10/2008 04:01:08 PM
I'm not sure why, but there appear to be faint curved lines in the water. hmmm...
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Mamiya 645Pro TL
Mamiya 80mm f/2.8
 07/09/2008 12:14:23 AM
I love the blue! And the title really suits the texture.
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