Challenge 20: "Fall Colors" - Submissions

[pakodominguez]

a seasonal "easy" challenge


Closing date: 20 December 2009

[pakodominguez]

Sonoma Valley
A700 with Tamron 70-200 f2.8
1/160 @f7.1 400 ASA

[aster]

Hi Pako,

Nice challenge idea! The thread will be embedded with colours no doubt.
Lovely colours! Joy of autumn indeed.

Yildiz

[david antony]

You made a great start for this Pako.
Not near as many deciduous trees with that
kind of colour out here! but lots of these things
popping up all over ;^)

5-D

[aster]

Hi David Antony,

It's the time of the year for pumpkins then... I like the puppet-like farmer in the wheel-cart though can't see much of him.

The 5D has great bright colours...

Yildiz

[dewarp]

Here's one that suggests fall colours.

regards - Peter

[aster]

Hi Peter,

Your photo looks like a tentatively-created painting with that thin layer of mist veiling the trees ahead...a beautiful trail to spend time on.

Lovely...

Yildiz

[bossel]

Here's one that suggests fall colours.

It's absolutely gorgeous - like a golden forrest!!

[bossel]

Two from Corsica in mid-september:

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[Lonnie Utah]

Not as good as Dewarp's (it's outstanding), but a couple....

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Edit cause I finally read the "rules"!

[dewarp]

Thanks for the positive comments folks.

I mentioned that it "suggests" fall colours for good reason. Although taken in autumn the original did not look like this. I attach below a copy of the original as it would "normally" come out of my raw converter (no further PP or sharpening). The yellow/orange version came out of experimenting with shifting white balance in my raw converter together with some PP in CS2.

regards - Peter

[dewarp]

Oops - Sorry Aster, only after submitting my second image (not really for consideration as a "Fall Colours" entrant) do I note your limit of one image per customer - my apologies. Delete it if you want to!

regards - Peter

[aster]

Oops - Sorry Aster, only after submitting my second image (not really for consideration as a "Fall Colours" entrant) do I note your limit of one image per customer - my apologies. Delete it if you want to!

regards - Peter

Hi Peter,

You need not worry over the second photo at all. It's obvious to us all why you wished to share it with us and as the starter of this challenge happens to be Pakodominguez, he is the one to set any limits to the number of photos submitted. The person who starts the challenge has the right to make the rules.

Seeing so many beautiful images is always very inspiring and brings out the colourful spirits in everyone. I have no complaints on my part. In fact, what you just did gave me an idea: we can start a "before and after" thread in the Post-Processing section and see/admire what can be achieved with good post-processing...We can even start a challenge for this!

Thanks for sharing because you really improved and pushed the limits that only resulted in a magnificent outcome as a photo. Very inspiring...


Yildiz

[aster]

Hi David Antony,

The scenes are full of mirth and colour. Absolutely lovely puppets and pumpkins!
I think I want to cook/bake some pumpkin desserts myself.. There are so many recipes to choose from... hmm, a pie perhaps.

Thanks,

Yildiz

[pakodominguez]

Oops - Sorry Aster, only after submitting my second image (not really for consideration as a "Fall Colours" entrant) do I note your limit of one image per customer - my apologies. Delete it if you want to!

regards - Peter

Hi Peter,

You need not worry over the second photo at all. It's obvious to us all why you wished to share it with us and as the starter of this challenge happens to be Pakodominguez, he is the one to set any limits ...

*Imagination* is the limit

I don't care. as many pics as you want.
surprise us!

Regards