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Challenge: Postcard II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Irvine, California
Date: Nov 18, 2006
Aperture: F27
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/8 sec
Galleries: Nature, Travel
Date Uploaded: Nov 19, 2006

 Palm tree. Shot in Irvine, California across from the Irvine Spectrum.

It was difficult to decide if I should submit this to the "Postcard II" challenge or the "Perspective IV" challenge. LOL!

Post processing steps:

Adobe Camera RAW
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o Changed light temperature to 5,500 degrees
o Turned down the exposure to -1.45
o Tweaked the shadows to 24
o Brightness bumped up to 138
o Contrast set to +37
o Saturation to +6
o Calibrated Green Hue (+18) and Saturation (+100), Blue Saturation (+29)

Photoshop
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o Spot Healing Brush to remove sensor dust spot
o Selected the small blown out areas
o Created new layer via cut
- Filled in these cut items (on the new layer) with matching sky color
- Change layer mode to Pin Light
o Flattened layers
o Resized to legal DPC size (minus room for upcoming border)
o USM (31/1.0/0)
o Add new layer for text
- Entered text
- Tweaked text layer style (applied Outer Glow, Satin)
- Set opacity to 67%
o Flatten layers
o Save for web

Statistics
Place: 72 out of 266
Avg (all users): 6.1500
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.8919
Avg (non-participants): 6.4128
Views since voting: 1184
Views during voting: 416
Votes: 220
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/25/2006 07:03:00 PM
Very nice treatment! Bump.
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 11/25/2006 01:16:02 AM
This would have been great if the sun hadn't been too bright on the top. I love the perspective. Maybe you could do it again some time at a different time of day.
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 11/24/2006 09:36:00 AM
like the effect of the palm tree, well done
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 11/23/2006 11:34:08 PM
Great idea. The softening of the opacity at top is a good idea, but perhaps you might want to look at preserving your border's opacity. Nice work. 8
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 11/23/2006 05:43:16 PM
Lovely picture, not sure about the effectivness of the misting on the top border.
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 11/22/2006 08:48:21 PM
VERY NICE!!! love the perception!
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 11/22/2006 12:40:34 AM
Great perspective. My kinda shot.
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 11/21/2006 09:21:02 PM
great composition and colors - very well done postcard
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 11/21/2006 01:50:14 PM
I like the perspective and the shading a lot. Good idea to fade the intensity behind the lettering. (How'd you do that, anyway?)
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 11/21/2006 01:14:03 PM
Great perspective. Only negative is the haze or whitenes at the top is distracting. Did you do that to make the text stand out?
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 11/21/2006 04:25:12 AM
don't like the white gradient with negative text, had preferred white or bright colored text instead
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 11/20/2006 05:16:38 PM
would have been great in the Perpectives challenge.
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 11/20/2006 12:44:19 AM
excellent shot and composition .....
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