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Makapu'u
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Landscape V (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: East O'ahu
Date: Nov 21, 2009
Aperture: f 4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000-4000-250
Galleries: Landscape, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Nov 22, 2009

The windward coast of O'ahu. This is shot from the scenic trail above the Makapu'u Lighthouse on the windward side of O'ahu. It's about a 1.5 mile walk each way and the trail is all paved. Easily accessible but the sun can be a B**** in the middle of the day.

3 shot exposure HDR merged/tonemapped in Photomatix and Processed in CS3

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 136
Avg (all users): 5.8182
Avg (commenters): 6.1250
Avg (participants): 5.6825
Avg (non-participants): 5.8938
Views since voting: 881
Views during voting: 429
Votes: 176
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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12/04/2009 08:48:20 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: Colours are almost surreal, but especially with that sky looming overhead, I don't see why they couldn't be natural.

Technical: Very open and dramatic, like the pov with the cliffs appearing to vanish from underneath your feet. Not too crazy about what appears to be a lot of tonemapping on the sky, the clouds look a bit soft, and cliff to left looks almost a little flat by comparison to rest of image.

Artistic: Like the way you got the two islands at the thirds on the right. Good work on the colours, the richness of the water does not look overdone imho.

Overall: Nice picture, could be a postcard. I feel the voters objected more to the level of pp than anything else.

Good work!

Feel free to PM me with any questions,

Susan
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/29/2009 08:38:54 PM
Hey, you didn't include the lighthouse (lol), beautiful colors!

Message edited by author 2009-11-30 10:39:46.
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11/29/2009 11:40:16 AM
What wonderful depth,light and rich colors this eye catching landscape/seascape composition has. Beautiful. 10
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11/28/2009 08:41:30 PM
A little too saturated for my tastes, but good composition and capture.
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11/27/2009 11:10:31 PM
that is some blue, blue water
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11/26/2009 07:20:01 PM
Wow is the water that blue? ... Nice scene well shot
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11/25/2009 09:59:35 PM
OO I did a 360 pano from this spot. Great vista.
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11/24/2009 05:07:05 PM
The colors appear to be almost too boosted - giving the a surreal, neon quality. Beautiful shot & perspective.
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11/23/2009 06:27:09 AM
Feels somewhat heavy handed on the processing.
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11/23/2009 12:06:50 AM
Unfortunately your processing, while making the water look cool, really shows up on the cliff to the lower left.
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