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11-DEC-2005 Chris Cochems

After (Monterra Light)

Monterra, California

Processing

Straighten
Select ruler
Draw line along horizon
Go to Image/Rotate/Rotate Arbitrary

Select all
Go to edit/transform/scale
Hold down shift, and drag upper left and lower right corners to fill the screen.

Go to edit/transform/scale
Pull upper right corner until the vertical perspective distortion is gone.

Shadow/Highlight
Shadows
Amount 57
Tonal Width 28
Radius 60

Color Correction +20
Midtone Contrast +2

Go to Hue/Saturation and kick the saturation up to +45

All of the above left a color cast, so:
Go to levels
Select R G and B individually, and adjust curves left and right arrows to clip at the major portion of the curves.

Nikon Coolpix 8400
1/187s f/6.6 at 8.7mm iso50 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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