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Published: 2010-01-14 11:29:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 1324; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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Description A panorama of Nidelva in Trondheim, Norway.
I realized that I have lived in Trondheim for almost 6 months now, and have barely taken any pictures of the city, so I got out last night and tried out my new camera (I didn't take that many pictures though, cause it was freezing cold outside, around -10 degrees (14 Fahrenheit))

You can't see it because of the long shutter, but there were thin layers of ice on the river floating past all the time

Post-processing
Edited the wb on all the pictures in camera raw.
Stitched the pictures together with automatic photomerge in Photoshop.

Lightened the whole picture slightly with two curves layers. One of them where I lightened the lighter tones only. Changed the colour tone in the picture by adjusting the different colour channels with another curves layer.

Turned up the contrast on the snow in the foreground with a black and white layer set to overlay (80%). Turned up the contrast on the water with a curves layer. And lightened and turned up the contrast on the houses with another curves layer.
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Comments: 17

TaGiRoCkS [2010-03-30 02:24:00 +0000 UTC]

very cool!!

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Kvikken In reply to TaGiRoCkS [2010-04-05 18:14:05 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

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solefield [2010-03-28 04:40:12 +0000 UTC]

Love the calmness... the colors... wow, what an impact the photo makes, I feel like I'm there!

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Kvikken In reply to solefield [2010-03-29 08:55:17 +0000 UTC]

Very glad you like it
It was an amazing evening (extremely cold though...!), and I'm so glad I went out to take some pictures.

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Sun-Seeker [2010-01-15 06:20:35 +0000 UTC]

You've done very well. Its flawless and a great view... rather you than me at those temperatures tho... your battery life would be short!

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Kvikken In reply to Sun-Seeker [2010-01-20 18:03:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much
It was really cold (though the week before we had temperatures as low as -23 celsius, so compared to that, in the beginning it didn't really feel that cold ). I went into a small kiosk at one time just to warm up a bit, and the moment I stepped into the warmth it felt like my legs were burning.

My battery did well though. Played around a bit with my camera the night before, took some pictures and a few videos. I had a two hours shoot in studio before I went out to take these pictures. Stayed out for almost an hour and a half in the cold and took around 40 pictures all with 30 seconds exposure, and had a two hour shoot the day after that again. And I had only used up 50% of the battery capacity.

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mimchs [2010-01-14 14:59:14 +0000 UTC]

aww! it's awesome!!!

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Kvikken In reply to mimchs [2010-01-14 21:13:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Mariya

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mimchs In reply to Kvikken [2010-01-14 21:15:58 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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zuckerblau [2010-01-14 13:53:05 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful shot my dear!

I was very lucky that I've seen this beautiful city with my own eyes last holiday!

Oh and congrats on the new camera, it does well

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Kvikken In reply to zuckerblau [2010-01-14 21:15:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

It is indeed a beautiful city, I guess I should get out more often and take pictures of it

And I absolutely love my new camera. I thought that in the beginning I would think it was too big, but I didn't, rather just after holding it in my hands ones it felt perfect, and then when I held my old camera it just felt like a small plastic toy or something

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simonex86 [2010-01-14 13:09:46 +0000 UTC]

fantastic!

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Kvikken In reply to simonex86 [2010-01-14 21:15:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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JohnySnap [2010-01-14 12:36:31 +0000 UTC]

awesome stuff. These photos you do are amazzingg! I should give it a shot

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Kvikken In reply to JohnySnap [2010-01-14 21:19:54 +0000 UTC]

Doo eeet
And thank you

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JohnySnap In reply to Kvikken [2010-01-14 21:26:40 +0000 UTC]

haha if I can figure it out I will!!!

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Kvikken In reply to JohnySnap [2010-01-14 22:02:59 +0000 UTC]

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