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About:
This month assignment at the photo-club at work was 'colors', this is of course a very broad subject. I started thinking about a suitable subject, came with the classic ideas of pencils and cross polarization (that last one I still have to process) but I tried thinking out of the box.
Then I got the idea of candy which is always very colorful. Now I had to think about a 'story' and came with this: A remote to choose the color of each candy with a remote

Location:
My tabletop, Belgium :)

Technical stuff:
Exposure: 0,5 sec at f/16 at -1 1/3 EV
Taken with: Nikon D300S and 18-200 mm f/3.5-6.3 at 135mm
This is a blend of 3 images: one of the remote and finger, and two of the candy with different focus point. The blend I used to control the focus on different parts of the picture.
After that I blended them all together and did the usual stuff to enhance the total picture:
- noise reduction
- removed spots
- increased saturation on the live of bears.

Practical stuff:
The surface is actually my laptop screen which I was flat and with a white complete background, by using my fitted polarizer I could than darken the underground and still have reflection (cross polarization effect)

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I thought with the new Flickr Contacts page ability to show panorama's correctly that I upload a panorama which was lingering in my "To upload" folder but I didn't upload yet because it looks similar to the normal picture. It just shows more of the skyline to the right and left and if you look closely you can spot the "Statue of Liberty"

Subject:
Panorama of Manhattan skyline.

Technical information:
6 bracketed shots through normal HDR processing. Colors look a little better and 'fuller' that the normal shot in the first comment

About:
Remember my last upload? I was just walking around my campground to get some shots without moving to far when I saw that mountain in the distant I was looking for some interesting foreground when walking along the Icefields Parkway, when I saw this field of dandelion to my right, I descended the rather steep berm and found me a place to get a shot, and this was the result. Hope you like it too.

Location:
Mosquito Creek, Banff NP, Alberta, Canada
This image is also geotagged

Technical stuff:
Exposure: 0,4 sec at f/11 at -2/3 EV
Taken with: Nikon D300S and 18-200 mm f/3.5-6.3 at 32mm
HDR (merged with Photomatix, tonemapped with Oloneo PhotoEngine). High pass sharpening and cooling filter on the sky to get some blues in, I'm not really sure if it enough or too much...

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About:
Mosquito creek, yes with mosquitoes! But it was already September when I took this, so they weren't a real bother. This shot was not planned at all, that night I wanted to stay at the Lake Louise Campground but the queue was more than 500m long and there was a definite smell of forest fire. I didn't want to queue there so I turned around and drove to Mosquito Creek campground and was tired of driving around so I disciplined myself that evening to take some rest and relax and only shoot picture in walking distance of the camper.
That's how this shot happened.

Location:
Mosquito Creek Campground, Banff NP, Alberta, Canada
This image is also geotagged

Technical stuff:
Exposure: 0,6 sec at f/22 at -2/3 EV
Taken with: Nikon D300S and 18-200 mm f/3.5-6.3 at 18mm
Photomatix: merged
Oloneo: tonemapping
PS5: high pass sharpening on everything but sky
PS5: saturation of yellow boosted a little on mountain and plants between the two streams

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When driving past the Columbia Icefields center I was struck by the colors beside the road, the short grass was getting all red and yellow, so I stopped to take a picture, but to be honest the picture doesn't do real justice to the sight I had, I have to try harder next time, nevertheless I still think is nice picture with on the background the Dome Glacier, one of the many glaciers from the Columbia Icefield

Location:
Columbia Icefields Center, Jasper NP, Alberta, Canada
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Technical stuff:
Exposure: 1/80 sec at f/14 at -1 EV
Taken with: Nikon D300S and 18-200 mm f/3.5-6.3 at 52mm
HDR from 7 shots, merged in Photomatix, tonemapped in Oloneo and than cropped in LR to semi square to get a nice view

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