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Challenge: City Nightscape (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K20D
Lens: Pentax SMC P-DA 40mm f/2.8
Location: South Perth foreshore, Western Australia
Date: Aug 26, 2011
Aperture: f/6.7
ISO: 200
Shutter: 6 seconds
Galleries: Cityscape
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2011

 Another attempt in my never ending quest to take the 'perfect' night shot of Perth. As usual, conditions conspired against me and a breeze blew up which spoiled the reflections on the water. Better luck next time.

Simple editing. Took RAW file in to ACDSee Pro and cropped and straightened a little. Ajustments made to contrast, highlight enhancement, lighting and saturation. Cloned a few hot pixels from the sky and some sensor crud (time for a clean). Resized, sharpened, saved as JPEG. Image looks SO much better without the 800 pixel size constraint.

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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 09/05/2011 12:19:17 AM
Congrats, Adrian thought this was your's I gave you a 8.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/04/2011 09:10:43 AM
The colors make it interesting.
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
 09/03/2011 05:24:43 AM
Good long exposure of this image love how give the water its stillness city itself is glowing well done
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 08/30/2011 11:30:37 PM
nice reflection
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Sony Alpha a7R II
Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16–35 mm f/4 ZA OSS
 08/30/2011 05:45:41 PM
Lovely colors.
Very surprising that the colors in the reflections don't match at all with the colors on the buildings!!

Also, the picture by itself is fantastic, but the border completely ruins it. Originally, the water line was at 1/3 height in the picture - which is awesome. However, with the addition of this border, the waterline is closer to center than the 1/3 line, and thus the pic loses it's balance.
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Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Canon
 08/29/2011 01:57:43 PM
I always find it amazing how different a reflection can look from the reflected - beautiful colors
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