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Lighthouse at Sunset
Lighthouse at Sunset
bassbone


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Challenge: Best of 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: Eastern Point Lighthouse, Groton, Connecticut
Date: Dec 11, 2006
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Jan 5, 2007

Yikes - Looking at this image now that I have a new monitor for my computer and have since calibrated it really scares me. Boy did I overdo the saturation. LOL! It looked pretty good on my old monitor!



Taken of Steve Brown's favorite lighthouse. I used CS2 to create two copies of same image at two different exposure settings. Used Photomatix Pro to generate HDR JPEG image with tone mapping. In Elements 3.0, adjusted levels, hue/ saturation of individual color bands, adjusted brightness/contrast, resized for web, USM, reduced noise and spot editing in rocks to remove lines generated by HDR conversion.

Statistics
Place: 320 out of 712
Avg (all users): 5.8213
Avg (commenters): 5.8667
Avg (participants): 5.7364
Avg (non-participants): 6.0674
Views since voting: 1074
Views during voting: 448
Votes: 347
Comments: 19
Favorites: 1 (view)


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05/05/2007 03:44:30 AM
one thing, the LH is too nearer the frame line. composionally almost centered. slightly good work at photoshop. but why deep red line on the left . why?again there is enough space up or down to reduce and raise the impact of the whole scene. better cut from the foreground. make two L-shaped cardboard cutouts and view the pic.moving them up or down,or sideways and make the best of composition of your good photograph.
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04/07/2007 03:27:56 PM
absolutely beautiful reds! Great perspective, a bit too much saturation, but its still gorgeous!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/24/2007 10:27:32 PM
beautiful topic, but i'm not quite sold on the post-processing here.
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01/22/2007 07:22:27 AM
Too much hue and sat.
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01/20/2007 11:09:20 PM
This seems a little oversharpened (the white halo around the lighthouse). But you lucked out...I'm a sucker for lighthouses and add one extra point from what I would normal score them.
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01/20/2007 01:27:43 PM
overly saturated...unneccesary.
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01/17/2007 06:11:40 PM
Good perspective. Sky's a little overprocessed and foreground is a little dark. Could be a bit sharper overall.
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01/16/2007 12:37:46 AM
Nice one here re the colors.....
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01/15/2007 10:37:34 AM
Beautiful
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01/14/2007 10:41:34 PM
nice colors, tho there seems to be extra red on the lighthouse - is that just the reflection?
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01/14/2007 04:46:50 PM
too much saturation. I know dcp members love it, but it does not look real. Saturating a little from the original to give it pop is good, but this is overboard.
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01/14/2007 11:24:26 AM
very beautiful ! 7
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01/13/2007 04:49:20 PM
Nice shot. I think showing less of the bottom portion would have done better for this shot. I love the blue hue of the sky! Nicely processed.
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01/13/2007 12:53:57 AM
Wow beautiful colors
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01/12/2007 10:41:44 PM
Amazing color
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01/12/2007 10:30:08 PM
This can only be one of two people.....hmmmmm.....Avery Point Light...My guess....Peter.
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01/12/2007 04:56:26 PM
a bit overprocessed imo...
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01/12/2007 03:47:38 PM
Composition and the elements in this shot are very good. Looks like a bit strong on the saturation for my taste.
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01/12/2007 09:47:00 AM
NIce sunset glow of light - so real you can smell the salt air. I particularly like the light on the rocks in the foreground. I like the deep blue of the sky - but there seems to be a good bit of noise in the thin clouds at the very top of the frame - probably from boosting the saturation. I wish the red on the lighthouse wasn't so neon bright. The horizon is not quite straight - when I line it up with the edge of the window it is only slightly off, but for some reason it seems more tilted - perhaps the distortion from the lens is adding to the illutsion?
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