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EXIF: KONICA MINOLTA MAXXUM 5D \| 2 sec \| f 5.6 \| 18.0mm (35mm equivalent: 27.0mm) \| ISO 200 This post serves double-duty. First , it is my regular post for Monday October 16, 2006. In addition, I am using it as my entry for the Photo of the Week program over at the Photoblogs Critique discussion group. If you are not familiar with the idea, a few of us have agreed to work towards a regular critique forum where people are asked to offer more intense critical appraisal of photos offered than usual found in blog comments. To maintain a bit of order, we only critique one picture a week (thus the name 'Photo of the Week' ... duh!). I was nominated by last week's 'victim' to put one of my shots into the crosshairs, so here it is. I don't take a lot of night pictures, and really don't have much of clue of what I am doing. Yesterday I went out with a friend to do some sunset and early evening shots in the Antique District of Troy, New York. I liked the colorful window of this shop and the old warehouse building it is in. But taking the shot caused me hardship with exposure because to get the window correctly exposed meant the building was black and to expose the building right, the window display blew out. I am including a link to the original camera JPEG for this shot. What I am posting is processed from a RAW file using both RawShooter Essentials and Photoshop. I warmed the white balance a bit, added several adjustment layers (levels, curves with a luminosity blending mode, color balance, hue and saturation) and some fairly liberal burning and dodging. I also cloned out an aluminum window frame on the second floor of the building because it seemed to detract my eye. I wanted to get rid of the air conditioner too, but that was a bigger project than I felt up for. Any and all comments and critiques are welcome. If you are participating in the Critique Group, please make sure you put your critiques in the the appropriate thread over there (which I will start as soon as I post this.)
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EXIF: KONICA MINOLTA MAXXUM 5D \| 2 sec \| f 5.6 \| 18.0mm (35mm equivalent: 27.0mm) \| ISO 200 This post serves double-duty. First , it is my regular post for Monday October 16, 2006. In addition, I am using it as my entry for the Photo of the Week program over at the Photoblogs Critique discussion group. If you are not familiar with the idea, a few of us have agreed to work towards a regular critique forum where people are asked to offer more intense critical appraisal of photos offered than usual found in blog comments. To maintain a bit of order, we only critique one picture a week (thus the name 'Photo of the Week' ... duh!). I was nominated by last week's 'victim' to put one of my shots into the crosshairs, so here it is. I don't take a lot of night pictures, and really don't have much of clue of what I am doing. Yesterday I went out with a friend to do some sunset and early evening shots in the Antique District of Troy, New York. I liked the colorful window of this shop and the old warehouse building it is in. But taking the shot caused me hardship with exposure because to get the window correctly exposed meant the building was black and to expose the building right, the window display blew out. I am including a link to the original camera JPEG for this shot. What I am posting is processed from a RAW file using both RawShooter Essentials and Photoshop. I warmed the white balance a bit, added several adjustment layers (levels, curves with a luminosity blending mode, color balance, hue and saturation) and some fairly liberal burning and dodging. I also cloned out an aluminum window frame on the second floor of the building because it seemed to detract my eye. I wanted to get rid of the air conditioner too, but that was a bigger project than I felt up for. Any and all comments and critiques are welcome. If you are participating in the Critique Group, please make sure you put your critiques in the the appropriate thread over there (which I will start as soon as I post this.)
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