1st Place the old mill by Arn by Canon DSLR Challenge

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the old mill
by Arn


18-JUN-2006	Arn

Canon EOS 30D
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Canon DSLR Challenge		27-Jun-2006 23:10
Gorgeous, rich, colors, and beautiful composition! --Melanie (mlynn)

Guest		27-Jun-2006 21:08
Great capture! Kevin

Guest		26-Jun-2006 16:00
Great colors! Definitely one of my fav... Matt.

Canon DSLR Challenge		24-Jun-2006 07:40
Beautiful! I love the single seed head on the right. Jim H.

Canon DSLR Challenge		22-Jun-2006 14:32
Great shot. It draws me right in. I love it. ~Harvey

Guest		20-Jun-2006 14:19
Lovely rich colors and a fine angle of view. -Michael

Guest		20-Jun-2006 03:47
I have to agree that this is a really appealing shot. You did well in composing and processing!

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Jun-2006 23:56
I love this shot - it's really beautiful! And thanks for the info on the processing - the colors, texture and lighting came out perfectly. I like how the cloud on the right and weed seem to point to the mill arm. :-) CJ

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Jun-2006 23:10
Very nice, Arn. ~ Lonnit

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Jun-2006 16:15
Like it! -Cat

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Jun-2006 12:53
Yes, I was flat on the ground... :) And I also used a polarizer. The making of this photo was still a bit more of a pain than I would have liked, because I had to underexpose pretty severely (-1 2/3 ev in evaluative metering for the whole frame) to keep the hues on the sky and then make another "overexposed exposure" at about +3ev from the RAW file for the forground. So, in practice I exposed for the sky and underexposed the foreground -4 1/3 ev's when taking the shot... As a side effect that also resulted in some unwanted and unavoidable extra noise for the foreground. I could have exposed for the foreground and taken another separete hand held shot for the sky, but... that would have been even more of a hassle in postprocessing, trying to sandwitch two separate hand held shots together. And I have this tendency to think that it's somehow more "honest" photography to take single exposures, than making composites... :) -Arn

jnconradie		19-Jun-2006 12:06
It is beautiful, Arn. I can just imagine that you were probably flat on the grass to get this angle right? The colour-combination also works very nicely for me. Did you use a polarizer? Regards ~jnconradie