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Blue sky, red boat

Blue sky, red boat; Av+0; 1/125s; F/8.0; ISO 200

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada at 2006:09:23 17:00:54-07:00

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ben:

One day I'll buy you a little red boat and we'll go on adventures, okay?

Sell that one to Victoria Tourism.

There's a little posterization in the sky. That angers me.

And I just noticed the crap on the sensor. DAMN YOU LAWS OF DIRT!

I see that you bumped up the contrast and saturation, and the richness of the result is really pleasing, but I wonder how it would have been had you reduced the contrast, then compensated by bumping up the saturation a bit more (or, better yet, the "vibrance", if the version of ACR in CS2 has that). That way, you'd get the richness you have, but less contrast in the center (e.g. brighter trees). I don't know whether that would look better, but I'd think it be worth checking out....

I forgot all about all that metadata in the image file. I've tried the reduced contrast/increased saturation combination before. It seems quite similar to HDR and other tone mapping systems. I'll try it on this image tonight.

I think some of the contrast in the sky came from using a circular polarizer, but I don't remember anymore. It was almost a year ago.

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