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The watchtower
The watchtower
fridjo


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Challenge: Trees II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-D30
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Ljubljana, Rožnik-Šišenski hrib park
Date: Apr 25, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/90 s
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Apr 27, 2009

 I had this tree planned for some time now, and this challenge was of course a perfect reason to photograph it. And it's great that it is in advanced so I can try HDR! I had a hard time choosing my favorite shot, and went with this one in the end. I'm not sure if it's ideal because it's in portrait, but i really like the transition from green&healthy bottom to dark and apocalyptic top. And the bird on top branch is phenomenal, though I doubt it will be noticed easily.

I shot this in raw and created a pseudo-hdr in photomatix, tone-mapped using details enhancer. The result then went to photoshop, slightly rotated and cropped, a bit of curves, resized, usm, border, save for web.

This is an outtake:


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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 05/04/2009 04:35:56 PM
A little too much on the strong green and yellow for me, but that's just a personal taste thing.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 05/02/2009 02:06:17 PM
Great colors and exposure!!
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/01/2009 02:32:13 PM
Great picture! Like the bird on the dead tree.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 04/29/2009 07:52:26 PM
Very nice colors in this photo - 10
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