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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
06-04-2018, 05:04 AM
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Thanks for the good wishes, Steven, and for the description of how you photographed the beautiful shot of the cranes. Wildlife shown in context is always appealing.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-29-2018, 10:32 AM
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:o I should have read your initial entry carefully. An impressive photo. Handheld?
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-25-2018, 02:52 PM
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Wonderful photos, Q James, Tom, and Jacamar. Well deserved winners. I like them all very much, and Jacamar, yours only helps confirm to me that I must have a 15mm/4 Ltd in my camera bag.
Thanks for your thorough (and oft amusing) critiques, Cosmin, and kudos for managing to do so with limited coffee AND a power outage! Above and beyond the call of duty.
As for your question, why did I go for monochrome for my photo? I was new to post-processing when I shot that picture, and had an application with limited capabilities. Nothing I did made the colors seem right in this dairy-country dawn shot, but I liked the ground fog and the softness of the landscape and didn't want to give up on it. So, I chose to transform it into a sepia toned image, which looked better to me and I liked it quite a lot then. (In fact, the picture won a place in the Exclusives Gallery.) At the time I only had a laptop computer, which helps explain why the colors didn't look right to me back then. Now I have a much better monitor, so I pulled the original photo and worked on it a bit after entering your contest, and you can see it here. I entered the monochrome photo because it was different than the fine shots already in the contest.
Oh, and to answer your implied question, the terrain in the area (Eastern New York state) consists of a rather flat valley with some gently rolling lumps, bounded by thrust-faulted mountains. The foreground hills in the photo are the Taconics, on the Vermont border. The table-like mountain in the distance and hardly visible in the picture is in Vermont, almost in the Green Mountains.
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