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You'll be seeing great sights! (Oh, The Places You'll Go!)
You'll be seeing great sights! (Oh, The Places You'll Go!)
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Challenge: Dr. Seuss (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: Stonehenge, England
Date: Apr 30, 2007
Aperture: 11.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, History
Date Uploaded: May 3, 2007

 Ok, I have to get the vacation shots in!

Mary noticed the break in the clouds coming so we ran around to the other side to get this angle. I shot this lying on the ground to get as much of the sky as possible. We were on a tour bus from London that went to Windsor Castle, Bath, and Stonehenge. The only down side is you only get about 45 minutes at Stonehenge. I think we got lucky!

I took 7 diffrent exposure settings from 1 RAW image, -3 to +3 stops on the exposure slide. Combined them all in Photomatix for the HDR and tone mapping.

Opened in PS
masked off stones
adjust expsoure on the sky
adjust levels and color balance on stones
cloned out 2 people on the left (very small)
cloned out what appeared to be some grafitte on one of the stones
size
USM
Neat Image
add border
save for web

This may get a few DNMC, I think it fits perfectly with the book "Oh, The Places You'll Go!"

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 74
Avg (all users): 6.7623
Avg (commenters): 7.8696
Avg (participants): 6.4565
Avg (non-participants): 6.8333
Views since voting: 2910
Views during voting: 497
Votes: 244
Comments: 31
Favorites: 10 (view)

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 05/15/2007 12:02:19 AM
Bravo! Congratulations on your top 10 finish.
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 05/14/2007 12:20:17 AM
2nd ten in the top 10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/13/2007 11:49:39 PM
Have to assume this is David, and if it is This one blows your ribbon winner away. great shot! one of 3 tens from me. hopefully not to many DNMCs.
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 05/13/2007 12:43:52 PM
I'd like to tell how it relates to Dr. Sueuss w/out reading the title, but this is an awesome shot.
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 05/11/2007 06:54:49 PM
Stunning. Beautifully processed. Blue or Red IMO. Back to bump you up to 9.
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 05/11/2007 04:55:42 PM
Great shot of Stonehenge, but not very Dr. Seuss...
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 05/11/2007 09:33:59 AM
Gorgeous, gorgeous shot! Absolutely love the capture of the light rays on the stones. I might try saturating the color just a bit more but the composition is wonderful.
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 05/10/2007 09:07:00 PM
That is awesome!
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 05/10/2007 01:06:42 PM
8
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 05/10/2007 11:28:35 AM
The light from the sky makes the dead stones living. Excellent hot. Palle
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 05/10/2007 11:11:58 AM
Absolutely gorgeous shot.
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 05/10/2007 05:35:22 AM
Those rays of light was a godsend wasn't it? :P
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 05/09/2007 10:38:25 AM
Great sky and light beams in this shot. I think it is a tad over sharpened and is making the stone look flat = 7
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 05/09/2007 06:46:15 AM
Wow! What amazing lighting you've captured here. Your composition is lovely with the angle of those rays, the low horizon and the clouds and structure itself. The colours are great too.
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 05/09/2007 01:23:51 AM
Wow, you're definitely doing better with advanced editing.
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 05/08/2007 06:21:36 PM
o you know.
 05/08/2007 12:17:55 PM
nice!!, especially the sunrays
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 05/08/2007 11:28:38 AM
Wonderful composition that makes it seem all the rays end in Stonehenge. Should top ten.
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 05/08/2007 10:16:24 AM
One of the best shots in this challenge! Having compared this to the rest of the entries I'd say that this should be in the top 10 somewhere. Who knows, maybe one of the places this image will go is to the ribbons - good luck.
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 05/08/2007 08:34:48 AM
Lovely!
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 05/08/2007 08:24:54 AM
The title is the only link to the Dr. I'm afraid people will mark you down for this. Great photo otherwise.
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 05/07/2007 10:24:57 PM
Absolutely nothing to do with Dr. Seuss except the title. Still a stunning photo.
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 05/07/2007 05:39:10 PM
lovely! My favorite Seuss book too!
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 05/07/2007 04:39:02 PM
I wish the original would look as impressive as your photo.
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 05/07/2007 04:33:57 PM
Although I think this is a little bit of a shoehorn for the challenge, it is a TRULY stunning photo. 8.
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 05/07/2007 03:40:02 PM
beautifully moody landscape, great location, great skies. very well shot
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 05/07/2007 10:45:55 AM
Wow that is a great sight! 8
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 05/07/2007 09:50:51 AM
Wow, this image has alot of great things about it, This is a great sight!! Awesome work, 10.
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 05/07/2007 06:27:57 AM
hey ... wow, this is nice ! i love how the rays moved the stones to the right with its force :-) ... right? 10
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 05/07/2007 01:11:14 AM
Great photo (9) minus (2) for lack of Suessness
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 05/07/2007 12:19:43 AM
nice
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