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Challenge: Tarot Card (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Mar 7, 2011
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Landscape, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Mar 7, 2011

 Shot at the "Science on a Sphere" exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science on the UC Berkeley campus. It uses computers to project composite satellite data in 3-D onto a large spherical "screen."

Turns out the best view and exposure was taken with my older camera after my batteries ran down in the newer one.

-Handheld, Auto mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Crop from right
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 255KB

Resized original:

"Advanced Editing" version using masks to even out the lighting at the poles:

Here is a shot of the entrance to the exhibit to show scale, and one shot with a flash to show the interior details which must be accounted-for in setting the exposure parameters, especially if constrained by the Basic editing rules.

I previously used this same prop (last July) for this shot:

Statistics
Place: 48 out of 53
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Votes: 194
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/13/2011 07:55:02 PM
i lie it it is different
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/09/2011 09:21:31 PM
ok, but there is is a little black spot under it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/09/2011 10:22:39 AM
will be interested to see your notes as to how you got this shot
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 03/09/2011 09:18:40 AM
interesting photo
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