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Wildfire Regrowth Under Spring Storm, Santiago Canyon, CA
Wildfire Regrowth Under Spring Storm, Santiago Canyon, CA
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-05 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM
Location: Santiago Canyon
Date: May 23, 2008
Aperture: 8
ISO: 250
Shutter: 400
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: May 30, 2008

 One of my favorite vistas in Santiago Canyon that was torched last fall during the Southern California fires. It was drizzling and very misty. It was my first attempt at this type of PP.
ACR conversion, crop, curves, yellow photo filter, masked sky in multiply mode, dodged foreground, cloned out a few bright spots in the foreground, duplicate image, masked foreground in lab color mode/soft light channel b, change back to RGB, resized, USM, add border, resized. Save for web.


Shot at 70mm. I'm still looking for my first free study over 6.

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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 06/07/2008 05:54:30 PM
I like the subject and the detail you've captured. I think it would be stronger if the foreground was brightened up just a bit. I lose some of the interesting detail here, because it's so dark.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 06/05/2008 12:01:30 PM
nice canyon shot
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 06/05/2008 11:34:01 AM
i see where you're going here but find the picture to be sort of subject-less
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 06/01/2008 07:09:46 AM
Nice scene, but it lacks a specific point of interest. Maybe that dead tree in the bottom corner could be brought into the image as a point of focus?
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 06/01/2008 04:58:40 AM
I am not sure what to look at here that draws me into the image...it's justy a hill...sorry :(
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