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giantmike


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Challenge: Free Study 2012-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM
Location: Verona, WI
Date: Apr 29, 2012
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1600-1/100
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2012

 I had a completely different image originally picked out for this month. It was also an HDR, but of a gold course fairway. When I showed both of these to m wife, she couldn't decide. What eventually made up my decision was the fact that the golf course shot was on flickr for 3 weeks, with only 136 views and 4 comments (no favorites). That didn't seem like much of a contender.

So this photo looking up State Street towards the Wisconsin Capitol building won out. I really like the balance between the sun and the Overture Center for the Arts. Also like the colors and reflections in the glass.

Post Processing:
* Chromatic Aberration
* Combine three exposures in Nik HDR Efex Pro
* Clone out some dust and vignette
* White balance
* Increase black point
* Increase shadow brightness
* Lens Correction - unskew and stretch
* Topaz DeNoise
* Increase saturation and vibrancy
* S curve
* Color adjustments to reduce blues/purples in the buildings, and make the sky blue (had an ugly yellow tint and purple areas)
* Blur the sky to reduce noise further
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

Statistics
Place: 226 out of 275
Avg (all users): 5.2397
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
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Avg (non-participants): 5.3929
Views since voting: 362
Views during voting: 183
Votes: 121
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2012 07:42:56 PM
Something unsettling about this... But I like it.
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