Chris Abbey > Sunset from Cadillac Mountain.
Chris Abbey > Mmmm... chocolate. I dunno about this fluffy white sponge you spread it on, but mmmm... is this chocolate in my chocolate?
Chris Abbey > Sunsets photo
Chris Abbey > Another sunset over the southern tip of Nevada from my parents house. Every time we go out there they seem to have the most awesome sunsets waiting for us. :)
Chris Abbey > Sunsets photo
Chris Abbey > Sunsets photo
Chris Abbey > Quinn in the gerbil tunels of the Aquarium of the Bay. (Which kinda failed to satisfy expectations... which weren't all that high to begin with.)
Chris Abbey > IMG_0685_adjusted
Chris Abbey > third shot for the safari, this is an HDR of two shots, SOoC jpegs: windows and building and Sign. 

What I did: massive change in the raw processing on both images to get the exposures I wanted for the two parts. they became layers in PS then and I painted a layer mask to control which was exposed in the final image. 95% of the layer mask was done by PS with a few quick strokes of the magic selector.... the remaining 5% was done by hand cleaning it up.

Cons: the long exposure in the back layer (1.6seconds) + 20D + warm chip (I'd been shooting a lot of long exposures by this point in the night) + massive raw exposure compensation = noise. There's less than some would think, the stonework is heavily textured, that's not all noise, but if you look close at some areas you can see it. Well, I saw it in PS, at 300% zoom....

Bonus: find the horse

I'd love to do Fuji Pearl paperp here, but will probably do metallic instead, since we offer it and I would have to jump through hoops to get a print of it in time. Might still try.
Sunset from Cadillac Mountain.
Chris Abbey > Sunset from Cadillac Mountain.
Sunset from Cadillac Mountain.
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