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Challenge: Purple III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6G
Location: Berkeley Hills
Date: Aug 18, 2008
Aperture: f9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 9 sec
Galleries: Cityscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2008

 Shot at 300 mm. Raw conversion, shadows/highlights, Selective Color, and a curve. Crop, Resize, Sharpen, Save for web.

Since I shot at 300 mm, some details were just going to be lost, but I really liked the light from the nearly full moon breaking through the low clouds.

I tried to get to Grizzly Peak Road in Berkeley from Highway 13 but got lost in the Hills of Montclair. So I went to try and find it another way and went to Hiller Road instead.

I freely admit this is way overdone, eventhough the light looked magenta, I would have processed differently if not for a purple challenge.

PC: LoL, sometimes you look at a photo long enough and convince yourself it will do well, sometimes you are very wrong. :P

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 08/27/2008 10:19:07 PM
Ah, my dear Joe, you've broken the KISS rule for good scores at DPC - and you know better! I find the picture quite delightful to wander through. I actually like pictures that offer the option to "wander through". Meets the challenge well, though purists might find it a tad on the blue side.
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Canon EOS-1100D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 08/26/2008 11:35:00 PM
One or two hot spots there? I like this though, the water in the centre stops the metal structures from looking over-cluttered.
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Canon EOS-650/T4i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 08/26/2008 11:15:54 AM
Nice long shot... I somehow feel that composition could have been better if you could have cropped/moved away from the distracting right bottom thing(some port I guess)...
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
 08/21/2008 05:13:50 PM
A crop of the far side of the river only would have looked better as the foreground is too mnoisy and cluttered. Good looking sky.
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Fujifilm x100
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 08/20/2008 10:03:41 AM
I like the flat feel. Good color and composition
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