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Challenge: Natural Body of Water (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Oct 15, 2011
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/159
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Oct 16, 2011

 Reeds and forested hillside at Lake Temescal Regional Park in the Oakland hills ... this is a natural lake which has been "enhanced" by human intervention.

Title from a very old song.

-Handheld, manual mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop from bottom
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 261KB

Statistics
Place: 143 out of 150
Avg (all users): 4.4679
Avg (commenters): 4.6667
Avg (participants): 4.4107
Avg (non-participants): 4.5283
Views since voting: 773
Views during voting: 214
Votes: 109
Comments: 5
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35 f/4 ED VR
 10/20/2011 03:34:23 PM
I would have liked to have seen a wider angle of this. Other than that I think that this photo is okay. Nothing spectacular but not bad for sure.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D500
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 10/20/2011 02:22:08 PM
The green is very monotonous
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR
 10/18/2011 09:20:56 PM
This photo is very static to me, no definitive subject.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a7R III
Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS
 10/17/2011 12:02:54 PM
Needs a subject to draw the eye.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Olympus 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom
 10/17/2011 06:10:27 AM
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