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Discovering a School of Deep-Swimming Jellyfish
Discovering a School of Deep-Swimming Jellyfish
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Challenge: Image Grain II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Natural Bridge Caverns, San Antonio, Texas
Date: Mar 13, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Mar 13, 2007

 Went with friends to Natural Bridge Caverns today, and though “Gee, those look like jellyfish.”
I’ll probably get slammed for “dnmc” because the grain isn’t very obvious in the web-sized photo.
I was going for a look like you get from the cameras on the little deep-sea subs, the ones you see on National Geographic channel discovering some bizarre new critter from the deep ocean.

Convert from RAW, cropped.
Applied levels, curves, contrast / brightness multiple times.
Resize and save for web.
More contrast / brightness.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/19/2007 09:34:03 PM
A very interesting idea. I've never thought of stalactites as looking like jellyfish, but they rather do, don't they? The composition seems a little off here - I'm wishing for one prominent "jellyfish" for my eyes to latch onto. Still a good effort.
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 03/19/2007 04:46:18 PM
is this caverns? cool idea.
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 03/16/2007 07:34:51 AM
not a lot of contrast, and it has green overtones
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