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Challenge: Fireworks IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jan 1, 2011
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/13
Galleries: Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Jan 1, 2011

 Wrapped some Christmas lights around a cone of clear Mylar sheeting, then had [user]Isaac[/user] drop them while shooting with a long enough exposure to create a blur.

-Tripod, Manual mode
-RGB Curve
-Hue/Sat adjustment
-Crop
-Resize
-Use burn tool to darken rwo distracting spots at "ground level"
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 176KB

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 69
Avg (all users): 4.0583
Avg (commenters): 1.0000
Avg (participants): 3.5135
Avg (non-participants): 4.1667
Views since voting: 794
Views during voting: 392
Votes: 223
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/09/2011 04:47:16 PM
Ha, I thought this was camera shake. OOPS. The black 'sky' makes this look very real.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2011 04:23:41 PM
I quite liked this!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2011 03:31:01 PM
you put a lot of work into this! thanks to your cone you achieved the iconic fireworks shape, but with a different direction... which I believe you allude to in your title.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/02/2011 10:00:34 AM
Doesn't look like a firework.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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