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Challenge: Your Corner of the World III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Sydney Harbor, Austrailia
Date: Oct 17, 2009
Aperture: F/9
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Cityscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Oct 18, 2009

 Taken from the top of a ferris wheel at Luna Park in Sydney.

PP> Opened Raw, Cropped and Adjusted Horizion, Adjustments to Brightness, Contrast, Hues and Sats, Sharpened, Opened in PS4, Adjustment layers for Levels, Curves, Vibrance, Merged then made an adjustment to Highlights and Shadows, Resized, Sharpened again, added border and saved for the Web.

[Oct. 27th, 2009 11:53:04 PM]

Thanks for the votes and comments. I had expected this one to do better, through the first 20 votes it stayed above 7 but then it quickly dropped down to 6.2 and stayed there all week until the last hour of voting it dropped into the 6.1 range.

ETA: I have gotten a few messages and comments about this shot being oversaturated. Believe it or not, I hardly bumped up the colors at all. I enhanced the greens a little bit to give the boat a little more definition but that was all I touched. I used a CP filter and the sky was about as blue as could be that day, the combination of the two makes it appear oversaturated but it actually is pretty much all real color.

Statistics
Place: 29 out of 160
Avg (all users): 6.1639
Avg (commenters): 6.8571
Avg (participants): 6.1690
Avg (non-participants): 6.1617
Views since voting: 1064
Views during voting: 353
Votes: 238
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
 11/01/2009 01:09:29 AM
I wondered if the oversaturated blues would hurt when I saw this during the voting period. Would be nice if you could make money off this, by selling postcards, no offence meant.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D300
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 10/26/2009 09:20:58 PM
Great composition, color, and exposure.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/25/2009 06:59:53 AM
classic aussie image
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 16 Pro
Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA
 10/25/2009 06:33:48 AM
Bit too saturated for my personal taste. Otherwise nice postcard type image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Tamron AF 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical(IF)Macro
 10/23/2009 01:10:32 PM
postcard image, love the opera house in the background says the place w/o words..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 10/21/2009 02:52:24 PM
Nice vibrant colors..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus SP-570 UZ
 10/21/2009 09:17:01 AM
Colorful...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED
 10/21/2009 06:54:15 AM
I like that you got a lot of elements in your shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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