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Challenge: Free Study 2007-02 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Lime Ridge Open Space, Contra Costa County, Cal.
Date: Feb 24, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/750
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 24, 2007

 This is an outtake from the Trees challenge; a different view of the same tree as the image I submitted in that challenge.

The punny title refers to the fact that there are several post-processing firsts for me here ... first use of photoshop (elements III, bundled with my Wacom tablet); first time I desaturated an image; first border. I'm not sure how well this will do, but I do look forward to the comments, good or bad.

Levels
Desaturated with lightness adjustments in individual color channels (bumped blue, cyan and green, reduced yellow and red) (no channel mixer available in PSE3).
USM
Crop
Sharpen (tried the step down method for the first time here; took about 10 steps to get it down to size)
Border
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This is the original:

Statistics
Place: 248 out of 624
Avg (all users): 5.7442
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.7000
Avg (non-participants): 5.8810
Views since voting: 799
Views during voting: 231
Votes: 172
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 12/11/2007 10:00:25 PM
A superbly composed b&w, well framed.......................
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2007 03:58:44 AM
Seems a tad oversharpened as I see halos as I call them along the edges. Very nice lighting.
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 03/07/2007 03:40:26 AM
Love the simple composition but the image is flat and needs some contrast etc.
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 03/06/2007 07:39:05 PM
Beautiful shot, love the composition , contrast and brightness. B&W is very nice also. Nice work.
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 03/05/2007 10:31:17 PM
Great silhouette, I like the aspect ratio of the picture & the frame
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 03/04/2007 09:21:58 AM
Great tree; I would like to see it a starker black in silhouette.
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 03/01/2007 02:04:37 PM
shouldn't that be in the trees challenge? nice pic 7
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 03/01/2007 04:28:29 AM
Great tree and a nice tree shot.
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 03/01/2007 12:28:08 AM
I would have liked to see a little more contast. 8
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