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And then a glorious light covered the earth
And then a glorious light covered the earth
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2008-05 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 17.5-45mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Tennessee
Date: May 26, 2008
ISO: 100
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: May 31, 2008

 On my way home over the Memorial Day weekend the sky kept giving me absolutly beautiful rays and colors, I instantly remembered this large cross and actually prayed that I would reach it before sunset. I got there in plenty of time and was so happy that the sky was again being so awesome. I pulled off the highway and into the parking lot behind the cross (which happens to be a XXX sex shop lol) and took a few shots at different exposures and distances. I was upset that I couldn't get exactly the angle I wanted (the cross is up on a hill a bit and I couldn't climb up there) and ended up with powerlines in the image, I hope I did ok cloning them out.

Combined 3 different exposed images with Dynamic-Photo HDR software, saved as Tiff and opened in CS for final post processing.

selective color to remove way too much yellow and red
hue/saturation
brightness/contrast
clone powerlines down near horizon (didn't get them all)
median noise reduction
crop to cut off weird left edge distortion
resize
USM
save

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Place: 282 out of 481
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Votes: 157
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/05/2008 12:43:01 PM
great photo and title
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/03/2008 08:44:29 PM
I like the composition, but it seems a little heavy on the processing
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/01/2008 05:51:30 PM
I love the color and the contrast.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/01/2008 09:15:35 AM
not a fan of the edit, a little overdone for my tastes
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/01/2008 08:28:10 AM
I really like this - very powerful.

My only nitpick is whether you could have got rid of the square sign to the left of the cross - I think that would be ok under the advanced editing rules.

Anyway very nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/01/2008 07:19:43 AM
like the big dramatic here
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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