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Rough Territory
Rough Territory

Buses maneuvering carefully on a mountain road near Piana, Corsica, France. UNESCO WH Site.

Looks nice in Lightbox, but even better at Original...

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Girolata Dusk
Girolata Haze - Corsica
by Michael

Short after sunset in Corsica with view of Golfe de Girolata. It was a wonderful evening and a good reward for the hours of driving through the winding corse roads that day. It's really no fun going up and down in serpentines for hours on those small roads. The views are a good compensation for this though :-)

In post I had to do some focus stacking of three different focused shots. I shot this at 25mm and f/9,5 and there was no way to get everything as sharp as I wanted with just one shot.

-- Many techniques I show in my Start2Finish Post Processing Tutorial were used in this shot. There's a long section about focus stacking in the tutorial for those interested.

Chateau Fort
Chateau Fort
by Michael

A little hike brings you to this beautiful outcrop in the Calanche Region of Corsica. I was a bit overwhelmed by all the possible compositions and all the rocks and when the sun appeared again under the clouds I stuck with this one. I'm not 100% happy but the 4/5 crop looks quite ok with the strong center.

I used a lee 0.6 soft and a lee 0.6 hard gnd here. I also had to employ some focus stacking to get foreground to background sharp at f/11. Same technique as in my start2finish tutorial.

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Les Calanques de Piana
Les Calanques de Piana

**Calanques de Piana, UNESCO World Heritage Site. **

A calanque (from the Corsican word of pre-Indo-European origin calanca (plural calanche) with...

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2 Evisa
2 Evisa

Evisa, Corsica, in a fake Tilt/Shift kinda way.

T/S in PS CS4, pp with Nik Silver & Color Efex Pro.

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Snow and pine
Snow and pine

On the walk up to Capu d'Ortu

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Girolata bay
Girolata bay

From Col de la Croix viewpoint

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Girolata Haze - Corsica
Girolata Haze - Corsica
by Michael

Wonderful light at golfo di girolata, corsica. I went for a panorama here, stitched two horizontal shots to get more detail. I also needed bracketing since the light was so intense.

I still have to sort through the photos of this trip but there's a lot more to come :-)

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Porto from above
Capu D'Ortu

Porto bay viewed from Capu d'Ortu summit

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Scandola
Capu D'Ortu

viewed from Capu d'Ortu summit

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porto6
Capu D'Ortu

Genoese tower viewed from Capu d'Ortu summit

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The Joshua House
The Joshua House

Got inspired by U2's 1986 Joshua Tree album cover during the processing of this shot, hence the title.

**Single RAW, not a HDR. PP with Nik Silver...

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Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Deux-Sevi!
Most notably Michael and Rob Oo.