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Published: 2010-06-23 14:06:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 6510; Favourites: 443; Downloads: 0
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The summer solstice is a magical time of year on Kauai. The sun sets at its northern most point and sends golden rays across the north coast. The Kalalau Overlook is one such spot. Often shrowded in clouds it can look like one big cloud or one of the greatest views on the planet. This day had a bit of both.Arriving a bit more than an hour before sunset the clouds moved in and out and as the sun got low the valley cleared in totality and the golden light shone in. The amount of color in the scene was overwhelming.
4 horizontal images (2 blended photos each), railing removed from bottom right...was standing on table to get better perspective.
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aF
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Great Scene and good PP well done on this
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I am in awe. This looks surreal. So beautiful.
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Simpy stunning!
Love the light and the clouds
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unearthly beauty ! at first glance, i thought this must be cgi, probably done in Vue...
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Fantastic wonder! That light is just gorgeous the way it shows off all this beauty!
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Magical light, love this landscape, so full of colour! Have to agree with Maria, and Hougaard on the points they made though, but I can imagine how tricky this must have been to compose, and expose for.
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I'm ok w/ the trees as they act as a frame...compression hurts this too...
[link] bigger.
Fun times though!
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Oh wow, detail galore!! This all just a manual blend again, how many exposures?
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just 2 exposures for each image. pretty simple actually. took another image to blend the trees in the fg as the frame it used to stitch had too much movement in it so used the still'er one. 4 horizontal shots total.
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Ah right, I just thought with the range of light that there may have been more than two. Do you use the AEB when shooting, or manually bracket your exposures?
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usually just av and ev. sometimes for panos with big DR i got to manual and do it sometimes adding another dark image for the highlights. I thought i would need an extra shot for this one and took it but the image when darkened in post still had detail so i just used the one.
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Yep, same as myself, that worked out a treat then.
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wow, what a magical place!
great work
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Did you use that auto adapt thing in CS5 to remove the railing?
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content-aware fill for that one yes but wasnt complicated that i couldnt have done it w/o
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Gonna get lazy now huh...
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This picture has an amazing beauty to it, which I can only describe as surreal. Awesome shot!
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This is absolutely stunning! lovely.
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Oh my God ! 
Incredible photo.
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hmmm...Looks like a very tricky scene to compose. As beautiful as it is, it's very cluttered. Those trees on the left are very irritating.
Good shot. Really looks like an amazing place
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Hmm, might have to disagree with you...compression kills it a bit but the act as a great frame with the flaming clouds behind...here's the large version:
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Composition was a bit 'easy'...as that's just what you see when you're there....just a matter of capturing it right.
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Another example of excellence -- both in the natural beauty, and your ability to capture it!
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When you replied to me at Facebook "I'm everywhere" I thought I'd tease you replying "Omnipresent as God"
I'm seriously thinking that you may be one, since you seem to be living in a paradise! Perfect once again (it's just that I think I see a small patch top left corner where the clouds end where the dodge tool (?) seem to have touched the horizon too leaving it a bit darker from the rest... then again I've spent too much time staring at my pc screen and my eyes are playing various tricks on me)
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I'll double check but dont think I touched that part of the image. As for the godliness...just a mortal...with a camera
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are you kidding me? am i dreaming? THIS is so extremly dreamy and paintinglike beautiful!!!
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slap yourself. see if your dreaming. let me know how it goes
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if i dream, i don'T wanna wake up...so i better leave out on the slaping part
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Utterly amazing. Looking at this photo, I feel like I've stumbled into a distant and fantastical land, maybe another world all together.
The vibrant colours, the warm light, it's all just so amazing. I love how the sea and the sky almost blend together on the horizon.
Wonderful. : )
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