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"On lake shores, where the forest met the lake, you could find elf circles. They were round places where the grass had been flattened like a floor. Elves had danced there. It could be dangerous and one could become ill if one had trodden over such a place or if one destroyed anything there."
An Elf is a mythical creature of Germanic mythology / paganism which still survives in northern European folklore. In Norse mythology they were originally a race of minor gods of nature and fertility. Elves are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests and other natural places, underground, or in wells and springs. They have been portrayed to be long-lived or immortal and they have magical powers attributed to them.
- source: Wikipedia.org
A quite heavily postprocessed photograph.. The process is something like this.. First it's a three exposure HDR image -3ev, -1ev, +1ev.. to get all the colours of the sunrise.. then merged and tonemapped in photoshop, after that it's quite heavily dodged and burned and saturated / desaturated and so on until I got the dramatic effect I was looking for. then sharpened and uploaded to flickr.. it's a maybe 6-8 hours worth of postprocessing.. but I am happy with the result =)
I have the same problem as the rest of the mac world it seems, with gamma, so if you are looking with a windows computer it will unfortunally look too dark, like the rest of my images... If anyone got a clue on how to fix that please tell me..
I like to hear what you think. I love creative comments, I have no problem with negative such as long as it's somewhat constructive.
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For the Critical Masses group:
About the aim, I wanted it to look like something from the mythologies, they say where the fairies dances there are this sweeping fog.. and the sky was really dramatic, almost like a fairytale.. I want to take your imagination and sweep it into this mystical land of the past... The aim is NOT to show of hdr skills
destuart411, Adptus..., H2O Alchemist, treva_ellison, and 106 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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Island-Em. 80 months ago | reply
That is an amazing shot!
sooncome 80 months ago | reply
great athmosphere, great colours
mom,GFW forbids me to use flickr 77 months ago | reply
amazing！
blueeyeddebby 76 months ago | reply
F-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c
snowy4052002 74 months ago | reply
Beautiful shot! Thanks for posting to our Red in the Morning Thread!
Please add your Beautiful Photo to:
Beauty is in the *Eye* of the Beholder!
2GreenEyes [deleted] 74 months ago | reply
I still believe in fairytales...excellent shot!
I saw this in Beauty is in the *Eye* of the Beholder!
roxieffcc 73 months ago | reply
Great title - gorgeous image!
floaty clouds 72 months ago | reply
Love this. It's amazing!
AlxkueyaR 71 months ago | reply
Wow!
The sky is on fire...
nice!
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Seen in a discussion of HDR. (?)
Slightlydramatic [deleted] 70 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 'It's magical' - a photo manipulation group, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
pschmutz 70 months ago | reply
very nice hdr! well done!
hk_traveller 69 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called All My Favourites, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
~Tuey~ 68 months ago | reply
Hi!
We are moving the "Hall of Fame" thread of You vs. the Best to the group pool, to get them more visible, so please add it...
thanks.
LostMyHeadache: Absolutely Free * 61 months ago | reply
Simply amazing.
girltwin 53 months ago | reply
This is my favorite in all of your photostream. it reminds me of paddling in Alaska. Great job.
K.G.Photos 41 months ago | reply
I like this one man. Good job!!
WarzauWynn 33 months ago | reply
Niiiice, this rules
gallmese 31 months ago | reply
coool colors & like the post processing as well! feel like in a fairy tale when looking at the photo...
akeippela 28 months ago | reply
Love the colors and reflection, very nicely done.
zoesands 23 months ago | reply
Fabulous photo - the sky looks like it is on fire.