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Janos Jasko
{K:117} 1/22/2007
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Colors are amazing. Nice picture.
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Riham Essam
{K:4931} 11/22/2006
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Congraaaaaaatss nice
mood , colors Well
Taken , Thanks for sharing
Best Regards,
Riham Essam
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Gökhan KARAMAN
{K:8878} 11/22/2006
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wonderfull landscape beautifull place...
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reza goudarzi
{K:7097} 11/22/2006
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wooow! a super landscape pic! where did u capture this landscape? photo of the year!
regards,
reza.
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taran
{K:1284} 11/22/2006
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Oh, I noticed you said you are using noise ninja. Nothing from nothing, but noise ninja hasn't had a major update in 3 years. This is significant because noise reduction algorithms have become dramatically better since Ninja's introduction, and today, if I had to rate noise removal software, NN would be dead last in its ability to reduce noise.
As a matter of fact, since NN was developed when there weren't consumer DSLR's of greater than 6 MP, the program fails miserably when applied to sensors of greater resolution, introducing both blurriness and other digital artifacts.
I would stay away from Ninja until another update is released, but its my personal opinion that Picture Code has ceased development of NN because they think it's unnecessay (its a cash cow for the company). No updates for 3 years is a poor way to run a company.
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 11/22/2006
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Hi Sal,
Great to see you on the front page again. Very powerful image, and an almost extraterrestial feel. Cool!
Cheers,
Hugo
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taran
{K:1284} 11/22/2006
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Hi Sal,
So nice to see you on the front page again, this is an excellent piece.
My only concern is that the high-pass filter was used a little too aggresively on the foreground and the haloing around the rocks is quite severe. The rocks on the left side are bordered by a black line and the clouds in the background are significantly lighter where the clouds touch the rocks.
You can do three things to correct this...
1) Use a high pass with a radius of fewer pixels in a layer above the background, and adjust the opacity of that layer to sharpen to a more natural degree.
2) Use a feathered selection that more closely borders the rocks, i.e. of less pixels.
3) Get a graphics tablet and mask the rocks by hand, pixel by pixel.
I hope this helps you improve this gorgeous photo.
cheers,
t
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antonio nullus
{K:8540} 11/22/2006
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uno spettacolo salvatore,un vero spettacolo meritatissimo premio.
ciao
nullus
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Jimmy Piper
{K:5742} 11/22/2006
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beautiful strong colour, really pops off the screen!
great work...
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174151} 11/22/2006
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Nice to see you on the front page, dear Sal. I had not seen this beauty before...congratulations!:)
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 8/29/2006
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another masterpiece salvatore!
cheers
roby
7+
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andree lerat
{K:17476} 8/23/2006
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Thanks Sal. :) Andree
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Salvatore Rossignolo
{K:13559} 8/23/2006
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First I 'noise ninja-ed' the clouds only. Then I adjusted the magical 'Shadow/Highlight' on the clouds only, and finally I tweeked up the sat. on the clouds maybe 8-11 points. The noise ninja is critical here, it kills the digital noise artifacts without dulling the focus so that when you adjust the levels or the shadow and highlight or the saturation your result does not get annoyingly noisey or grainy.
Sal
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andree lerat
{K:17476} 8/23/2006
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Wow... This is just fantastic. Well deserving of the award. How did you get the sky this way?  Andree
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Marian Man
{K:80636} 8/23/2006
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congratulations dear Sal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
absolutely spectacular!!!!!!!!!! bravo!!!!!!!!
all the best
Marian
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ricardo longhi-frantz
{K:9628} 8/19/2006
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wow!!!! terrific shot!!!!!!!!
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 8/18/2006
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In that case, Sal...DOUBLE wow!
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Salvatore Rossignolo
{K:13559} 8/18/2006
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Actually Paul, the sky is natural except the obvious sat/ contrast /manipulation, the sharpening is what "lifted" the cloud scape of the rock. Honest Abe!
Sal
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jacques brisebois
{K:73883} 8/18/2006
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impressive landscape, colors and contrast.
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 8/18/2006
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Just the slightest bit of edging indicates that the sky was comp'd in Sal, but that's a minor point that doesn't really detract from this POWERFUL landscape!
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 8/17/2006
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Surreal shot, Sal! This is what I imagine life on Mars looks like - apart from the odd green leafy stuff. Very proficient postprocessing!
Cheers,
hugo
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David Lockwood
{K:977} 8/17/2006
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Wow! Sooooo Red!! I really like the streaking in the clouds!
congrats!
dave
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174151} 8/17/2006
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Very alien feeling, but beautiful, Sal...intense!:)
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Teresa Moore
{K:11063} 8/17/2006
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Very lovely work. Great colors and sky.
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So Cal Photograhper
{K:18529} 8/17/2006
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Looks like an image of the landscape you would see on Mars.
Love the red rock and the colors.
Great landscape and wonderful in the pano setting.
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A.L Carter
{K:567} 8/17/2006
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Beautiful surreal image!
Al
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eric full
{K:-26} 8/17/2006
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well done, definatly a wall hanger
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Maurizio Ubaldini
{K:1350} 8/17/2006
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It seems to be on Mars,Beautiful landscape for the colors and thae composition..compliments
Ciao
Maurizio
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Luis Steinberg (EFIAP)
{K:21250} 8/17/2006
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Caro amico Sal... yes man... it's an excellent landscape, the tonal range and the sky better...Congrat your work Sal...we keep in touch my dear friend.LUIS
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 8/17/2006
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Very nice image . I am familiar with the area and enjoyed viewing this .
Thank you for sharing it ,
Michele Carlsen~
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 8/17/2006
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Espectacular paisaje.
Felicitaciones!
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