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The quiet fall #4 (24)
mbasil Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 336 W: 149 N: 745] (3304)
This is another shot of Vermillion Lake in Banff. (Yes, I was back in Banff again this weekend. Oh, it's a tough life!) Here's another shot at a Steve (signal-womb)-like shot. In composing the shot I was trying to engage foreground (rock), middle ground (lake) and background (moutain and clouds) in equal parts, just like the Irish master. Unfortunately I was only shooting with at 18mm (I was shooting my 10mm last weekend, so I just changed it for variety).

PP: Some cloning (sensor dust), a contrast adjustment, resize, and frame.
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mbasil Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 336 W: 149 N: 745] (3304)
brightness and contrast
Edited by:Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 885 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
I've selected by hand certain areas of the rocks and with a feathering of 10 pixels increased the brightness and decreased the contast in the shadows and darker side of the rocks to bring out a little more detail and decreased the brightness and increased the contrast in the brighter parts of the foreground rocks.

I also straightened the picture a touch becuase all of the trees seemed to have a significant lean on them (this may actually be the case - I can imagine this being a wind swept area), but the photo just seemed to beneift from a slight rotation.

I have also increased the contrast in the main mountainside and decreased it in the smaller mounatin... again with a feathering effect on 10 pixels so that the 'join' can't be seen. then just added a little more saturation and ran an unsharp mask - about 10 mins work in total.

Normally everything but the unsharp mask would be done on the full size picture with a feathering of upto 200 pixels...

Hope you don't mind Mike

Emma