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Posted By: slowpez, 12-14-2015, 06:39 AM

These are some of my favorites from a really beautiful park. I will break up the series into three parts so as not to cause visual overload. As I mentioned earlier, this trip was to commemorate our 50th wedding anniversary. Our son, who spent 6 years in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was able to join us for part of the trip. He finally decided to come home for good. This was one of the parks where we met up. It was a joy to be able to share it with him.

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What a wonderful place to meet up with family! Lots of dynamic range in these scenes, which you've managed masterfully. Terrific compositions - the first one is magical. Great stuff, Susan.

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for me the last 2, you just keep looking and finding new things to look at
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What a wonderful place to meet up with family! Lots of dynamic range in these scenes, which you've managed masterfully. Terrific compositions - the first one is magical. Great stuff, Susan.

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for me the last 2, you just keep looking and finding new things to look at
Thanks guys. Appreciate your stopping by and having a look.

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The first image is the money shot...

Once the green fringe is banished, sorry Susan I just hate it when it does that , my thoughts hit the page.
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The first image is the money shot...

Once the green fringe is banished, sorry Susan I just hate it when it does that , my thoughts hit the page.
Yeah, hate that tinge too. Glad my eyesight is bad enough that I can't see it unless someone points it out. Thanks for helping me out with this one. My husband can only see the sensor spots and sometimes he even misses those.
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Magnificent. Marvellous place to have the re-union too, very special.

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Yeah, hate that tinge too
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sensor spots and sometimes he even misses those
Both real easy fixes with Lightroom, it even has a "visualise spots" feature to help you hunt 'em down.
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Magnificent. Marvellous place to have the re-union too, very special.
Thanks for the kind words.

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Both real easy fixes with Lightroom, it even has a "visualise spots" feature to help you hunt 'em down.
OK Kerrowdown, I took the original back into lightroom to try and fix the fringing but all I managed to do was to get a white outline around the structure. Made it a mess. I guess I have to do some research on how to fix it in photoshop. I hate PP.
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Made it a mess
Your making the old Kerrowdown feel guilty for mentioning it now.

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Your making the old Kerrowdown feel guilty for mentioning it now.

I hope so. Adam gives me a forum discount for it.
Of course, the guilt could be abated if you could walk me through fixing the darn thing.
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VERY nice, Makes me want to go back there..Thanks
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Very nice photos! I am hoping to make a trip out there soon!
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VERY nice, Makes me want to go back there..Thanks
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Very nice photos! I am hoping to make a trip out there soon!
Thank you for your comments. Appreciate it.
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I hope so. Adam gives me a forum discount for it
I can believe you of all people could have talked him into that.

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Of course, the guilt could be abated if you could walk me through fixing the darn thing.
Hi Susan, looking for total absolution here.

Here's my best and quickest fix, but it will require the use of Photoshop as well as Lightroom, I hope you have both. If not I'm sure others will jump in with other ways to do this too.

After removing the green fringe in Lightroom, I would then switch into Photoshop, use the stamp tool set to darken, use an opacity of about 50% and pick a sample area in the sky just above or to the side of where the fringing was which is now the lighter halo. I generally don't use aligned and sample frequently but aligned would work in this case for the left of the mountains. Use a soft large brush, you don't have to be too careful because the darken mode will not effect the darker mountain area. Darken only darkens if the area it is applied to is lighter than the sample area, it has no effect if the applied area is darker. Build up the density gradually until it looks good. I'd work on a copy layer above the original layer.

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