Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York II

Posted by Daniel Chen (New York, United States) on 9 September 2007 in Sport & Recreation and Portfolio.

Nikon D70s
Nikon 80-200 f/2.8
155mm f/2.8 1/3200s ISO 200
WB: Shade
Saturation: 2

The team doing the stand-up technique

Post Processing:
I tried something new while editing this photograph. I was originally going to enter this photograph in the festival photo competition, and one of the requirements was to send a print 8x10. Since these boat races happen relatively far, even an 80-200 wasn't far enough for the races. but an 8x10 is also a massive enlargement so I doubled the DPI of the photograph before doing any editing, hoping that when I bring the DPI back to 300 the artifacts and such will seem less.
I went through levels, and noise reduction in the 600 DPI version, and added the photo filter and smart sharpening when I reverted the image back to 300 DPI

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