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Sentinel Keeping Watch
Sentinel Keeping Watch
MaryO


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Challenge: Sentinel (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Irish Wolfhounds
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Location: Occoquan, VA
Date: Jan 27, 2011
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 220
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 27, 2011

 A sighthound just having spotted something amongst some ruins in winter. The chimney could be a sentinel, too, but is losing its battle against the encroaching woods.

PP - slight crop, tonemapped dog and chimney (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1) and merged at 20% transparency, white balance, levels, dodged/burnt dog a little, cloned out some brighter branches above her head, desaturated her shadow, burnt background, gradient blue-grey filter on top to make it less yellow, resized, sharpened, added border.

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 128
Avg (all users): 5.3459
Avg (commenters): 5.2500
Avg (participants): 5.2985
Avg (non-participants): 5.3939
Views since voting: 830
Views during voting: 234
Votes: 133
Comments: 5
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/07/2011 02:54:48 AM
Exquisite Wolfhound.... This was one of my top picks in the challenge. I meant to comment before but ran out of time...Beautiful dog and image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 01/31/2011 06:44:38 PM
nice job, i like the border.
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 01/31/2011 05:33:53 PM
I want to whistle or snap my fingers or something to get doggy to turn their head towards me!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Samsung TL500
Sony DT 16-105mm f/3.5-5.6
 01/31/2011 10:38:31 AM
Poor doggy had to spend his day outside on a snowy day. This would work better with a more blurre bg.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm X100T
Pentax DA 70mm f/2.4 Limited
 01/31/2011 04:55:10 AM
Deerhound?
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