Killer Dust Bunnies (BEFORE/HELP or AFTER)

Challenge #26 in the Technology Enabling Art series. Hosted by ProfHankD.

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You're shooting and swapping lenses as needed -- the stuff you saw in the finder looked great. However, when you look at the images on a bigger screen, you notice that this huge hunk of dust settled on your sensor just before you took your best shots. This challenge is for photos "ruined" by sensor dust (marked BEFORE in title) and how they were saved in postprocessing (marked AFTER in title). Entering an image marked HELP in the title invites others to postprocess and submit AFTER versions of your image.

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Announced:

Thursday, 19th July, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 26th July, 2012 – Wednesday, 1st August, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 2nd August, 2012 – Wednesday, 8th August, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

An image to be entered as BEFORE or HELP entry may be postprocessed in any of the usual ways, including scaling, tonal adjustments, and cropping.
Postprocessing of an AFTER must only affect the dusty areas -- no other adjustments or changes of any kind should be made to the BEFORE or HELP image.
You may use any postprocessing you wish to remove/hide the dust spots, but an AFTER image MUST describe what you did: smudge/paint, cloning, synthesis of a replacement, copying obscured portions from a separate image, etc.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

The dust-plagued version may be submitted marked either as BEFORE or HELP in the title. HELP invites others to submit AFTER versions of it, BEFORE reserves that right for yourself.
A postprocessed version of an image must be marked as AFTER in the title. Each AFTER image must derive from either a BEFORE image that you posted or a HELP image posted by anyone.
You may submit as many images as you like, but not more than one AFTER derived from the same original image. You may submit an AFTER for a HELP image that somebody else already entered an AFTER for, but later AFTER entries that are very similar to earlier entries may be disqualified.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Not restricted

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

Not restricted

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by RaptorUK

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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - picture taken in a hurry without checking aperture value. Image was processed using PhotoShop CS3 using a mixture of Spot Healing brush and Clone Stamp tool. I often find that the Spot Healing brush gets it wrong, the Clone Stamp tool can be backed off on the opacity to give a more natural effect.

Camera:	Nikon D3
Lens:
Submitted:	Tuesday, 31st July, 2012 11:21 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 23rd July, 2010
Focal length:	200 mm
Shutter speed:	1/500 sec
Aperture:	F29
ISO:	400
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Views:	443
Galleries:	View this photo in RaptorUK's gallery

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Total comments: 6

Not fair.

How do expect me to look at a photo with Spitfires and a Lancaster in it and not get a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye?

Great work. Thank you.

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I don't, happens to me too . . .

Thank you.

( By the way, Spitfire is on the left Hurricane is on the right ;-) )

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nice

Comment edited 1 minute after posting

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Thank you.

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You got my 5 star wi this one. Nice capture, and fix!!!! Plus, it's the most interesting photo in the bunch (IMHO).

Comment edited 51 seconds after posting

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Thank you :-)

I was at an air show and just got back to my car and about to leave when they showed up, so got out of my car, open my bag up grabbed my camera and fired off a few shots, no time to check anything and shooting into the Sun resulted in F29 and some repair work :-)

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