Challenge: Separation (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix A340 Zoom
Location: Bankside Power Station (as was)
Date: Feb 16, 2005
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/170
Date Uploaded: Feb 16, 2005
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Two kinds of separation - perhaps three.
Oh, I went out shooting, only taking the Fuji as a back-up, thinking I haven't shot with the Nikon properly awhile. Grey and dismal day it was too, but as I strolled through Tate Modern to go and see my Braques (well, obviously not mine, but my favourites), here were these three people looking at their respective skylines. I thought they seemed like art critiques who'd got a little confused, and found some images to their liking. The A340 just happened to be the camera in my hand.
Things I wonder if people will say/think:
Will anyone notice that the three figures match up perfectly with the skyline above them, making a third separation, if you will.
Will I get a DQ request for 'drawing in a border', even though a quick look at the bottom of the frame makes it obviously a window? I think not, actually. I never get DQ requests.
Some processing details: cropping, rotating, and some lens distortion correction - both pincushion and perspective, though both quite slight. The original is a very quick shot with the Fuji, and it seemed necessary to have the Cathedral level and the window frames vertical. Fundamental levels are corrected with the Histogram adjust. Neat Image applied lightly. Colour temperature is corrected way into orange world, and then saturation is upped to around 40, and then the reds reduced somehwat. A heavily feathered area around the silhouettes is selected, and the contrast increased there through levels. The skyline and sky is selected and levels used again to bring out some interest in the clouds, which have turned into a marvellous medly of Monet-esque colours through the colour work earlier. USM at an exreme setting is applied - radius 60, amount 20, clipping 5 - to generate more local contrast. NeatImage is applied again, with much less reduction - around 60%, so as not to ruin all the textures in the sky. Noise added at 3% to put an almost un-noticeable sense of grain in: this helps with some impression of textures in the buildings. The image is re-sized to 610 pixles wide, USM'd at 0.5/70/5, and the 15px white border added. I think that's all. It's much closer to what I actually saw then is the out-of-camera image.
At the moment, of course, I think it's the most impeccably perfect meeting of the challenge, in a manner that no-one else will possibly have considered, and will thus steam it's way into the high sixes at the very least. Ah, hubris ... |
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