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The Spirit Pool
Published: 2009-05-29 06:35:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 24651; Favourites: 1210; Downloads: 0
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Purchase this print here: [link]Picture taken in Montana de Oro State Park, California; water entering weathered pool from Pacific Ocean.
Long exposure at site using HOYA ND 8 and ND 4 filters simultaneously, then, in Photoshop, using the camera RAW file, combined 2 different exposure layers. No manipulation was performed, unless you call color curves manipulation, which I do not. (And my version of color curves is not actual color curves -- I use Photoshop Elements, which doesn't have that feature.) I did, of course, change the rock to blue to give the picture a focal point.
[EDIT 6/2/09] Fixed problems with blended layers.
[EDIT 4.30.10] Updated border and improved color.
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[Personal reality check] A DD?! My first one?! I refreshed my internet after being away for a while and discovered this? Wow! I'm so grateful! Thank you to JacquiJax for suggesting and to Kkart for featuring it! I'm so jumpy with excitement right now!
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Is that a labradorite . Also beautifulΒ
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like looking at a totally strange different world. a dangerous beautiful looking shot
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This is really cool, looks like a magical portal is opening to another world...
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nice to meet you, 1023! haha, thanks.
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Love this image. Your editing is hereby excused.
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thank you
and I don't think there's anything wrong with editing when it's done properly.
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easily your best piece.... ( at least for me !)
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I'd have to agree with you! Everyone thinks the same. It was one of those lucky things we just stumble upon sometimes. I went and revisited the beach I found it at a month or so ago and it looks nothing the same. water changes the way rock looks so quickly.
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Great photo. It has been featured in my latest journal here:
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That's definitely a shot to be proud of! Congratulations on your DD, really well deserved!
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thanks!
I'm pleased that you like it
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Such a beautiful shot! wonderful details to the textures
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Such a LOVELY photo ... the movement in both the water and mud/sand(?) really have been elegantly captured! LOVE IT!
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not mud or sand, but rock! The pounding of the waves carved the rock the way you see it.
I'm so glad you like this!
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TAh - rocks ... of COURSE 
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I think you've proven there's such a thing as TOO good.
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ooh, what a comment! Thank you!
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Beautiful, simply amazing! Wonderful textures. You're a great photographer. I can only hope that someday I will be as good of a photographer as you ^-^
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Aww 
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omg that is beyond awesome!
those tones, the sharpness, the composition... i'm speachless!
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amazing. just purchased one for myself!
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wait. . . . you purchased a print of this?!
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It didn't show up in my message box. . . . Maybe it's still processing. So you really did? This would be my first sale!
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Yes! I really did! I purchased a 16x24!
it could still be processing. I had some problems with "notifications" when some of my friends and relatives purchased my calendar over Christmas. It'll come through...I already have an email from DA saying it is "in process"
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