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October 18, 2012
2:10 pm

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Exposure: Manual
Shutter speed: .6 sec
Aperture: f11
iso: 200
focal length: 85mm

October 18, 2012
6:05 pm

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Nice fall colors and reflections in the water. Well captured!

October 18, 2012
7:08 pm

Bjørn (Madman)

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Wow… Lot`s of nice colors, like the reflection, but the sky? Looks like you lost some detail there. Overall a very good shot..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/s.....nsson1968/

October 18, 2012
7:48 pm

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Very nice! But I agree with Madman. To have more details in the sky would be even better.

October 18, 2012
11:38 pm

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Thank you all for your input. Yea, noticed that one as well but unfortunately I’m not that good with photoshop Any suggestion how to darken just the sky area? Thanks.

October 19, 2012
8:56 pm

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I took a quick look and a sky replacement is difficult because of the small edges around the top of the trees.
I would suggest if you have the original raw image to see if you can make a copy of it and bring down the exposure 1 or 2 stops to see if any detail is recovered in Light Room or Adobe Raw. If you get anything then you can layer mask it in photoshop with this version and then add a short gradiant to the top so the images merge cleanly.

October 20, 2012
4:28 am

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Quote from Glenn72 on October 19, 2012, 20:56
I took a quick look and a sky replacement is difficult because of the small edges around the top of the trees.
I would suggest if you have the original raw image to see if you can make a copy of it and bring down the exposure 1 or 2 stops to see if any detail is recovered in Light Room or Adobe Raw. If you get anything then you can layer mask it in photoshop with this version and then add a short gradiant to the top so the images merge cleanly.

Thanks Glenn72. As suggested, I played with the masking and exposure, and this is what I got