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Down By the River
Down By the River
cgino


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Triptych II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: San Antonio, New Mexico
Date: Apr 24, 2007
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Landscape, Diptych / Triptych
Date Uploaded: Apr 29, 2007

 This is the Rio Grande which runs from Colorado through New Mexico then along the Mexico/Texas border. No matter where or when I've seen it in NM, it always has been muddy like this. I saw the car of the person I suppose belonged to the chair, but never saw the person.
Triptych consists of two images (top and bottom left are one, bottom right the other).
Processing:
RAW images each taken into Nikon Capture NX where -2, -1, 0, +1 and +2 ev 16 bit tiffs created
Tiffs converted to HDR and tonemapped in Photomatix
In Photoshop CS --
Neat Image noise reduction on both images
Tonality of two images matched using selective color and color balance
Cloned out errant tree branch
Cloned out distracting shiny bit on chair
Images resized and cropped to fit into layout
Lucis Arts 'Exposure' filter added as new layer at 26%
Hue/saturation adjustment layer
Levels adjustment layer
Layer in blend mode 'soft light' with black and white painting to darken/lighten selective areas
Selective dodging, burning and saturation
Add borders, add background
Resize
Unsharp mask
Save for web
Hmmm... think that's about it

Statistics
Place: 60 out of 244
Avg (all users): 6.1606
Avg (commenters): 7.3846
Avg (participants): 6.0217
Avg (non-participants): 6.2619
Views since voting: 1449
Views during voting: 358
Votes: 218
Comments: 16
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/30/2011 11:50:23 AM
more epic skies; tremendous color in there to contrast the clay rust mud with big blue and whites, buffered by green. excellent.
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 07/06/2007 03:10:48 PM
This is such an amazing collection of photos, breathtaking!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2007 07:27:58 PM
beautiful colors,very alive!!! and the sky is incredible!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/04/2007 08:54:42 PM
gorgeous sky.. almost over edited, but i still like it a lot... its a great contrast to the muddy river.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/03/2007 04:42:50 PM
beautiful 10! I would love to be here!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2007 01:50:13 PM
I love the clouds. Very nice peaceful shot.
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 05/02/2007 05:41:08 AM
Beautiful colours, I dont really like the chair there.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2007 02:30:34 AM
Great clouds and i think that is the theme you should have included in all the pics as the last pic seems a little out of kilt from the others.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2007 11:25:42 PM
Great shots and nicely processed..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2007 09:06:21 PM
Colors here are soothing and highly charming.
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 04/30/2007 08:36:07 PM
I really love the top picture, but the bottom right one is so boring to me that my vote lowered, sorry.
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 04/30/2007 01:35:59 PM
I do like this photo for the exotic location, the colours, and textures. 8.
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 04/30/2007 12:43:28 PM
i like this, but to me the chair is a little distracting. i think you could have gone either way, so you may have made the right choice, but I think I would like to see it without.
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 04/30/2007 05:40:48 AM
love the colours and the sky.......very nice.....9

2nd look............10
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 04/30/2007 01:53:17 AM
I would love to live here!
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 04/30/2007 01:01:54 AM
Beautiful 10
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