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Ornamental Grass
Ornamental Grass
MaryO


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Challenge: Sunset or Sunrise (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Dec 6, 2008
Aperture: f/5.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Dec 6, 2008

 At sunrise. These are planted adjacent to the path where I usually walk my dogs. Biggest challenge processing this was getting some depth to the grasses. I didn't want to go for a silhouette because I didn't think the sky was spectacular enough to hold center stage. Trying very hard not to oversaturate ;-)

PP - converted from RAW, cropped, increased saturation, blue gradient filter on very top of sky to deepen it, 2nd layer (HDR filter, Gaussian blur, merged in multiply mode), 3rd layer (selected grass highlights from HDR layer, merged in normal mode), increased contrast, added border, resized, sharpened seedheads, USM.

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Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
 12/13/2008 03:55:44 PM
nice picture, but the whole the picture is out of fouse
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/10/2008 05:06:00 PM
nice defination on the grass but I can not tell if this is sunrise or sunset or daytime...
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Apple iPhone 6
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 12/09/2008 04:03:38 PM
I wish the subject were a bit sharper.
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED
 12/08/2008 04:57:55 AM
nice composition but looks a little noisy
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Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 12/08/2008 02:06:03 AM
Nice, simple with the sunset sublty in the bakground. It would be even better if the grasses were sharper.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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