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After the Fire
After the Fire
Nordlys


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Challenge: Black and White Landscape (Basic Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 35mm f/2.0
Location: Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California
Date: Apr 24, 2010
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 25, 2010

 Hard to find something from my landscape outing that I liked well enough to submit. This was a last-minute choice. Not thrilled with the composition, but I figure it works ok in b/w. Originally I was going to drive out to the Badlands in the Anza-Borrego desert (I figure it's pretty monochrome there to begin with), but I was too short on time. Today I was hoping to get some central-Illinois windmill farm shots, but my flight to Chicago was delayed, so it was too dark by the time I drove by them.

Cropped, converted to bw, resized, sharpened, resized, sharpened, cloned out sensor dust, flipped horozontally. I think I left levels as they were.

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Sigma DP1x
05/01/2010 11:47:21 PM
Great idea, beautifully done. It does feel of death and devastation, but also of rebirth and new beginnings. So goes nature...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 04/30/2010 04:21:26 PM
Living in California, as I do, I see a lot of this type of devastation and the power fire has to wreak it. Your photo is a stark portrayal of what is left afterward - good job in the your pp.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 12
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5
 04/29/2010 01:20:44 AM
I admire the range of tones captured in your image, particularly in the way that the trees really stand out to demonstrate your title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 04/28/2010 02:04:17 PM
This is a really great idea that I think might be better executed in detailed shots than in this landscape format.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 7
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 04/26/2010 12:29:31 PM
I like the starkness of this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D3s
Nikon AF DC Nikkor 135mm f/2.0D
 04/26/2010 12:10:52 AM
Nice subjects. Lovely clear difference between the trees and the sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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