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November 25, 2012
11:06 am

sam_p84n

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I took this image in the morning.
Photo-1 Camera: Nikon D5000 Exposure mode: Manual Shutter speed: 1/30 Aperture: f9 White balance: Cloudy ISO: 200 Focal length: 18mm Metering: Matrix

November 25, 2012
2:39 pm

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Beautiful shot, Sam. Great composition and color. Horizon is spot on and I like the short straight line of the lake. The clearing in the clouds really sets off the tree top.

Very Nice… A pleasure to look at. Was there much post processing with color?

It does seem just a bit soft which could be due to the required downsizing here. At 1/30 sec. it is really difficult to avoid camera shake. Did you use a tripod? Otherwise, you could kick up the ISO. I’m not sure if opening the lens more would help as you would lose dof. I tried high pass sharpening with PSE10 and it did a great job on the tree branches against the sky.

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November 25, 2012
4:20 pm

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Sam,
although the shoot is beautiful, I like that you had with weighted metering mode focusing on the intermediate mountain, give more detail as a whole.
If you analyze the location of this shoot, that could well be compared to(contraluz) or backlighting domain where the sun exposure.
Even in such cases I sometimes I use measuring puntual, as the sensor of the D5000 has very good dynamic range.

However, not take it for granted is a matter of my apreciation, that made you like or dislike.

November 26, 2012
9:23 am

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Thanks Mandrake, Thanks Silky. Thanks for your valuable comments and suggestions

It’s a handheld shot. Unfortunately when I took the photo, I didn’t have my tripod with me.
I should have boosted the ISO or increase the Exposure compensation. But, I gave a try with hand held. Totally shot 8 pictures. 7 of them were blurry and this is the only proper one I got. Just increase a bit of saturation. That’s the only thing I did in post processing.

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December 4, 2012
2:04 pm

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Fantastic! Great composition and colors. Everything
just works in this pic and it’s a pleasure to view what
you have accomplished.
Dale

December 6, 2012
7:51 am

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Thanks Dale..

December 18, 2012
3:44 am

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Very beautiful photo – subject and composition! As for technique: Of cause using the tripod would be idea, but you still pulled it off. You could rise your ISO a bit to get faster shatter speed. Was it lens with VR? But in general it is hard to judge the sharpness by this picture size.

December 18, 2012
10:21 am

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Thank you very much Oksana. Yes, the VR was on. Picture is not very sharp. On full size image, if I look very carefully, I can see very light blur due to camera shake. But it’s hardly noticeable.

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