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Dried Up Wetlands
Started September 9, 2010 @ 1:58pm by Flo
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Flo
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| Dried Up Wetlands | September 9, 2010 @ 1:58pm | A wetlands meadow near where I live. We're in a rather severe drought - only one inch of rain all summer.
This area originally was not a wetlands, but only a lowlands and had trees on it. Then the county came along and created a raised roadbed, so the road wouldn't flood every time it rained hard. As a result, the water in the lowlands had no place to go. So over the years the trees died and the vegetation changed to wetlands types of plants.
This image is a 5-image pano, made with my new and highly technically reverse-advanced 38mm Diana lens! So that's why the image has certain characteristics that it would not have, had I shot the scene with a "normal" sharp-focussing lens. 
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This did require more work in PS than a "normal" image would have.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Wes
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| September 9, 2010 @ 4:17pm | Strange, Flo. This doesn't look too dried up to me. There is still plenty of green around. Is this normal for this wetlands to start drying up at this time of year? The foreground looks quite lush to me. I do see some dead tree trunks in the middle ground and some changes in color. I guess you would have to be there in order to get the feeling of dryness. What work did you do on this particular image.
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Roaddog52
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| September 9, 2010 @ 9:15pm | It seems a bit green to me up front, but I see the dried areas in the middle. I like the overall look of the image and the depth. I am a bit confused as how it is a 5 image pano, did you shoot five images vertically, stich them and then crop square?
Phil
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Flo
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| September 13, 2010 @ 10:14am | Thanks, Wes. Since I enhanced the colors, this is why it doesn't look as dry as it really is. We've had very little measurable rain all summer. All of the smaller creeks are dry and the larger ones are reduced to puddles.
Phil, thanks. Yes, 5 vertical images - I overlapped quite a bit, as I didn't know how well PS CS3's photomerge tool would handle a focus as soft as this lens produces. The tool performed very well.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Tim Clifton
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| September 13, 2010 @ 6:39pm | Hi Flo,
I like the feel of the image. The foreground seems to have a bit more focus or detail and then recedes into more abstract. Kind of like a journey that stars out clearly defined & then moves into a more carefree non scheduled trip.
Like Wes said, it doesn't look dry at all.
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Flo
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| September 14, 2010 @ 12:25am | Thanks, Tim. Focusing with this softy lens is a tad of a problem. One simply can not use autofocus, therefore one has to guesstimate. There are 3 focal lengths marked on the barrel, but sometimes they don't work very well - perhaps I just can't estimate distances very well.
In bright light, trying to use live view is almost hopeless, as the light washes out the view screen.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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