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Teus
reworked it a bit. did some noise removal so I got rid of the horrible noise in the sky. Lightroom v 1.1 now supports sharpening like USM, so I also gave it a touch of sharpening. improved a lot!

Taken in Gramvousa (Balos lagoon), most north-western point of Crete when we were out camping/barbecueing/sleeping on the beach with the international students.

love this one as wallpaper :)
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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
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previous version

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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
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like a Kodak ad

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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
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manipulated colors here

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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
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a touch of fill flash did miracles here

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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
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>>59033
the caves in the background were used by the hippies to live, back in the Vietnam war. that place made it a few times to the international news back then.

not much of it left now, maybe this?

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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
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lovely houses on the islands. this was taken on the Island Spinalonga, you can see a part of the fortifications in the upper-right corner

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>> Anonymous
Seriously though, no one wants to see your uninspiring vacation shots. They're quite boring really.
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>>59030
would've been a little fun if it was meant as a kodak-ad-parody to begin with.
>> Anonymous
>>59035
>>59028

are good. The post-processed version looks off to me.

The rest are meh.>>59034could've been great with slightly different framing, but as it stands it is meh.

>>59035could benefit from darkening the sky with a gradient or the burn tool.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>59040
see>>59011
At least one person wants to see his uninspiring vacation shots.
>> Anonymous
>>59030
Hilarious. The color choices of the subjects, albeit coincedental, seem to balance the photo very well.

>>59025
Sleeping on the beach with international students sounds like a very good vacation indeed, with or without pictures. ;)
>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
oh, I know vacation photos are usually shitty, but I think the ones are posted are somewhat better then most, or are at least somewhat funny.

>>59035
just couldn't resist posting one shitty generic photo.

>>59034could've been great with slightly different framing, but as it stands it is meh.
i took me a while to get up there, that's all I managed to perform composition wise. what would you have suggested?
>> Anonymous
ITT: Gigantic wastes of a D200. I mean, seriously, I can see perfectly good shots waiting to happen out on those rocks in the background!