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eagle79 — When the Storms Pass
Published: 2006-04-21 04:31:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 757; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 31
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I really need to get a graduated ND filter for shots like this. To bring out the image, I had to selectively apply curves to the grassy areas to lighten them and to the sky to darken it. There's a little color noise in the grass, but I think overall the result is pretty good. What do you think?Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5
Programmed Auto-Exposure, no flash
F/4.0
1/400 sec.
Curves (see above), slight saturation, and slight sharpen in PSP X.
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this rocks my :boxorz:
lol
filters always help with photoshop syndrome.
nate
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Rain!!!! Pretty sunburst. It's finally supposed to rain here. Flash flooding is a looming possibility according to the news....
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You know I get the impression you don't like where you live lol!
Thanks for the comment!
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oh really it isnt so bad...i wouldnt live anywhere else there is just a lot of abnormalness aboutr this particular area..and with that i mean about an 8 county area...i wish i lived in a different part of the county sometimes where all the smelly winds didnt converge but one can get used to even the oil field smells after a while...at today's prices its gold their pumping out of the ground...black gold. i kinda like the flooding too...for most people, except for the idiots who keep building right on the flood plain close to the river/creek/lakes 
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ND is a great tool, You really should buy it!!
As photomanipulation it's great!
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ND is definitely on my short list of accessories to get...
I'm not sure I'd call this a photomanip. Granted it's quite a bit more work than I usually prefer to do to an image, but most of the work is something I would imagine could be done in a darkroom... mask one area of the image and underexpose it, unmask and mask the previous area, overexpose it. The only color manipulation here is curves and slight saturation (something I do regularly). Really the only difference is that I applied the curves adjustment multiple times on different parts of the image.
Hmm... well, what do you think? DA has this note on photomanip:
"All images submitted to this section should be altered in such way that it is clear you have used techniques other than a filter and/or alteration in the colour of the original."
It doesn't really indicate whether the rule of thumb should be that the modification should be applied across the image as a whole or it can be applied selectively...
Actually, it would bring into question a lot of the modifications I sometimes do... what about cleaning up dust? removing facial blemishes?
I've always been torn on this topic. Usually I consider that if I end up painting something onto the image (not including dodge/burn, which I seldom use anyway), then that's taking it too far. But removing very small distracting elements, applying the usual color/brightness adjustments selectively, etc... I always considered these to be permissable within the 'Art Photography' category -- though not the 'Photojournalism' or perhaps 'Snapshots' categories...
What's your take on all of this?
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Yes, You're right. I think there is very thin border between image correction, such as photographers do in a darkroom, and photomanipulation.
I think colour corrections, such as levels, curves, removing dust (but, for example, removing part of image, like wires hanging across great sunset/sunrise is what? something what is created never existed in reality - photographer could move his camera to get a "clear" shot, You cannot remove parts of images in analog photography in darkroom) etc. are acceptable, even more - great photographers are masters of those techniques - I'm sure You know *Solkku or =robertmekis . I try to learn as much as I can to make my photos looking so nice, but it's hard to
Personally I'm against further changes as photomanipulation - that's why I use photo filters - NDs, grads, cir-pol etc. I'd love to make great photos in a "clear" way.
Best Regards!
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Thanks for your thoughts on all of this.
Very much I would agree with what you've said. I usually prefer to make photos as you say "in a clear way". There are times where I have made more elaborate changes (as you noted, removing powerlines 
To me, it almost seems that there should be some sort of middle ground... or, perhpas, since most of the dA community seems to freely manipulate images, a way to mark a deviation as a 'pure' photograph -- that is, with no editing. Those photos should certainly be celebrated above the others, as they require so much more skill to make.
Anyhow, I really do appreciate your input on this.
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Thank you! And thank you very much for the
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Thank you! And thanks so much for the
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I'd vote for a crop - The grass right under the tree trunk - and the clouds between the one bright spot and the rays. It would lose the one bright spot up high, but w/ that particular crop, my eyes wouldn't see it as a big loss (with this crop, it'd be a much larger loss in the pic).
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Hmm... I'll have to think on that one. I very well may already have a picture that frames it like that (I took a lot of shots of this).
Perhaps there'll be a "When the Storms Pass II"
Thanks for the
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I have enough for a trilogy of trilogies.. and perhaps a trilogy of those...
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i agree with what you said about the noise. i think you should have shown more of the grass, made the photo half and half
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Thanks for the comment. I played with the noise reduction tool in PSP, which usually does a good job, but it just had a hell of a time with this image. I finally gave up. Maybe if I had noise ninja it could do something with it...
As for the grass, I could definitely see that. Not sure if I'd like it or not, but I would like to try it. Might search through some of the shots I took and see if there's one with more foreground...
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Thanks so much for the comment and the
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