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Audio Technologies: From a Single String to Millions of Hearts
Audio Technologies: From a Single String to Millions of Hearts
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Challenge: Technology III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: O-At-Ka Festival, LeRoy, New York
Date: Jul 14, 2012
Aperture: 5.3
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 0.7
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2012

 Took Exposure at night in a tent at a local festival tonight. Since I have little experience with very low light shooting I had completely the wrong lens so most the shots were poop, including this one. So, I did the following in this order to get the finished capture.
1 Adjusted Shadows and Midtones up
2 Sharpened until the cows came home
3 Adjusted light levels again
4 Moved all the colors to a warmer place
5 Straightened the picture twice through the full range of straightening (it was shot with about a 30% upward angle but we all know cool guitarists dig deep on a hard Riff so it had to be down.)
6 Sharpened yet again (if you see the original you will understand where i came from on this. I actually liked the picture as shot but not enough to not play some.
7 Adjusted tones again
All the above was done in Picasa because I am too dumb apparently to figure out PS. Then...
8 Opened in PS to see if i could tweak color a little more (it was not worth the drive there so I...
9 Saved and Shipped

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07/22/2012 11:00:09 PM
great effect. well done.
 07/22/2012 03:39:22 PM
Refreshingly different.
 07/18/2012 10:49:06 AM
windy title aside, nice radical processing (for dpc). 7.
 07/18/2012 10:04:06 AM
I genuinely hope this ends up at the bottom of the pack.. Why in the heck would you do this to an image? The whole thing has become a eye gouging nightmare because of the processing.

The simple save here would have been to simply convert this to B&W, that would have taken away almost all of the eye-gouging aspects. I probably would have loved this as a super-low key image, perhaps if you had just cranked down the ISO and shot somewhat fast, then left me with an image of highlight and deep blacks, I probably would have preferred it... All personal preference really, but bright pinks and greens with lots of blur and grain isn't my thing. :)


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