This shot was taken around dawn at Lake Las Vegas, a really pretty place if you get a chance to go.
I got up early to shoot the sunrise with what was then a brand new lens and a pretty new camera.
The set of shots I got that morning were the first images I had taken that looked like 'proper' photos (once edited anyway!)
The edit:
A bit of sharpening
A bit of straightening
A bit of lens correction
Some change to individual saturation levels and the black point
I cloned out half a boulder which encroached mid right and a couple of very small highlights under the centre span of the bridge.
The lower foreground was already in shadow so I added a slight vignette to balance the whole image.
POST CHALLENGE:
So pleased that this image made it to 6 by the end of voting - that was my target! One of my goals for 2009 is to only have 6+ images on my front page.
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very pretty scene with excellent focus and dof. Colors work and are well treated. I could argue that the top 1/3 could be removed with no loss (making the image a square crop) but that might be a personal preference. It would strengthen the geometry of the piece though. 7
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