Slow Clouds

ridetwistyroadsridetwistyroads Registered Users Posts: 526 Major grins
edited April 23, 2006 in Landscapes
I don't know if this forum is the right place for this, maybe it should have been in "other cool shots" because there's no field or streets....:scratch

Anyways - what does everyone think?

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Thanks,
Chris
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2006
    Chris,
    ridetwistyroads wrote:
    I don't know if this forum is the right place for this, maybe it should have been in "other cool shots" because there's no field or streets....headscratch.gif

    Anyways - what does everyone think?

    Thanks,
    Chris

    I think it's a great contender for the ongoing Challenge 63 "Long exposure". I was exercising the same idea, but your execution is far more dramatic thumb.gif
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2006
    I agree with Nik
    Nikolai wrote:
    I think it's a great contender for the ongoing Challenge 63 "Long exposure". I was exercising the same idea, but your execution is far more dramatic thumb.gif

    That was my first thought on seeing your photo. The second thought was that there was a lot of haloing around the tree branches (white outlining). Is that due to your sharpening, or the in-camera sharpening? If you could fix that, I think you have a contender.
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  • ridetwistyroadsridetwistyroads Registered Users Posts: 526 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2006
    Thank you both for your kind words about the photo.

    I guess I should mention that I didn't realize there was a contest for long exposure's going on. rolleyes1.gif I have a terrible attention span, and keeping up with contests isn't something I do well. lol3.gif (let alone shooting on purpose for one!)

    There was no in camera sharpening - I kind of over sharpened (usm) in post because, to my eye anyways, it seemed to add to the drama of the shot. I saw, and didn't mind the haloing.

    I know it's not technicly right, but, I acually up-ed the pixels in usm to highlight it.

    Course, I wasn't planning on any contests either - I just go for what I think adds to the shot. But then I'm generally an idiot, so, what do I know? 1drink.gifthumb.gif It also looks nice printed - the white around the limbs draws your eye to it from all the way across the room. I guess to me, there's never been a wrong if I don't any know better, you know? ne_nau.gif

    Edit: the contest is a moot point - i took this shot nearly a year ago! :cry
    "There is a place for me somewhere, where I can write and speak much as I think, and make it pay for my living and some besides. Just where this place is I have small idea now, but I am going to find it" Carl Sandburg
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