Kelly Slater @ US OPEN Surfing

Today's men's trials....

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Great Captures!

Damn! Those look great!

Thanks EOS, tschultz...

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nice shots, love the first and last!!!

(looks like lens flare conditions taking away contrast on some,i'd try raising blackpoint a little in levels to try to make up for it)

and that last pair there, awesome

Thanks wombathorror...

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hell yeah. sweet shots.

All nice. Try a USM to get rid of the haze. Percentage 15 and radius 200...were you on the left side of the stadium ? try shooting close to the pier to get rid of the sun flare/reflections which kills contrast and creates a haze. That 400L f/2.8 IS Mk II is a gem of a lens.

fantastic series. very well done.

Thanks Silvex really appreciate the feedback. All i'm using is the DPP as I'm just too lazy to pp using lightroom 3. It's just too hazy this afternoon when KS came out to play and dusty as well due to the crowd and all. I was shooting in front of the stadium.

Thanks Bluedogs.

here are some links...I use 15, 200,0 in CS4

http://www.lonestardig​ital.com/photoshop_qui​cktips.htm

http://luminous-landscape.com …ontrast-enhancement.shtml

http://www.bythom.com/​sharpening.htm

I was going to post an edit using my steps, but you have "image editing" off.

Hi Silvex...thanks for the links. I figured out how to turn on my image editing. If you can show how you use your steps I would appreciate it very much. Thanks bro.

Here you go...the jpg I uploaded had to be like quality 4 (low) but at least you can see the colors and details gain from the usm and selective coloring.

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