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The Explosion of a New Day by *hougaard:iconhougaard:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Landscapes

©2008-2009 *hougaard
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My subconscious has been waking me up every morning on 30 minute intervals around sunrise, in the very optimistic hope of fog/mist.

This morning wasn't any different, I drifted into a state of conscious sleep, thought to myself it's time to look out the window, I opened my eyes(barely), pulled the curtain away and I saw the edge of our pool but I couldn't see the other side!!!!!woohoo. Got on my bike, went to the forest. I wanted to get to the higher,wetter and more natural parts of the forest with Oak trees,moss and ferns. But when I was half way up the sun cast it's light through the trees and I saw the fog was very quickly thinning out and dissapearing....This is the best I could get.

Three vertical shots [][][]
Processed a lot as explained in my tutorial [link] , I used 3 layers to process the ground, top left, and top ride sides separately.

BTW...before you say it Adriaan, I also hate that blown-out highlight above the road.

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~Syukmassesdesign Feb 22, 2008, 1:04:32 AM
beautiful!

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~kookoomonster Feb 22, 2008, 1:38:26 AM
nice

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*kimonokraken Feb 22, 2008, 3:42:35 AM
Sometimes a blown-out highlight is necessary to get the shot (unless it's HDR)... I'm way too anal about it myself! I have a photo where the sky is blown out around some trees, and matters were improved by blurring the edges of the highlight against the trees a little. It looked much less unnatural and 'digital'.

Personally I think this photo looks lovely - very natural-looking photo, subtle.

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~pixel-def Feb 22, 2008, 4:57:41 AM
that is really, really good.

did you enhance the beams?

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~pixel-def Feb 22, 2008, 4:57:56 AM
beams of light.

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=Rykardo Feb 22, 2008, 5:00:48 AM
Good work...;)

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~scmeder Feb 22, 2008, 5:04:31 AM
Whoa... no bad try at all;) not ur usuall style but I guess thats because u dont have any filters... perfect lighting, nice kontrasts and natural colors, like it

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~OnurY Feb 22, 2008, 5:19:33 AM
Very very difficult light conditions... Perfect postprocessing.
I'm very grateful for tutorial.

congrats!
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~kunoichi-kari Feb 22, 2008, 5:54:27 AM
I think it looks lovely. ^^ I really like the effect of light through the trees.

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*Dolore Feb 22, 2008, 5:56:10 AM
Wow..

There's so much beauty in the world. *.*

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Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
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Feb 22, 2008, 8:54:08 AM

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