Above and Below the Terrace by ctfchallenge

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05-SEP-2007	John Prichard

The below is taken from the road that can be seen from above

Canon PowerShot SD800 IS
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ctfchallenge		05-Nov-2007 17:31
Thanks TV. I almost never use vivid except in a situation like this. Thanks for noticing how hard it was to capture the overall exposure. For the SD800 (full automatic) even the manual mode is mostly automatic. I had to use the spot meter and move between light/dark elements until I got the sky in the top one and the light color of the grasses in the bottom one and then lock the exposure. The automatic mode would have completely bombed here. The top one is the one with the least amount of steam rising, unfortunately not at a good angle -- cropping the fence would have lost all the green goo at the bottom and changed the perspective from looking down to looking across. John

ctfchallenge		04-Nov-2007 15:06
Maybe its just a matter of taste, but I would prefer to see the fence and road cropped out. The result would be a cleaner set that holds together better and looks less random. Very nicely exposed and intelligent use of "vivid". -tv

ctfchallenge		02-Nov-2007 21:11
Thanks Lydia. Those colors are that great, in fact more vibrant than this. The lighting did brighten up a little so I will put one with the green goo into pending for you. What I worked at using vibrant color is to slightly capture what I saw in real life ... very rare to get what you see ... just look at trying to capture a bright rainbow. John

Canon DSLR Challenge		02-Nov-2007 01:17
John, this is beautiful. I first thought the colors were really great... fascinatingly pastel. Now, after reading your comment, I see that you've worked to get them. Good job! These two work very well together. ~Lydia

ctfchallenge		31-Oct-2007 22:10
Incredibly overcast day for our last day in the park. I put the SD800 on vivid colors to see if I could get more life since the light was a real killer. I have many with lots of steam but this was the only one that would work for this pairing -- gust came and blew the steam away for a bit. This stuff is just a bubbling away. I can't believe that the trees could stand for so many years. John

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