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Challenge: Magic & Mystery II (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Verona, WI
Date: Jan 28, 2012
Aperture: 5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1.6
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2012
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Sometimes opportunities just reveal themselves like magic. Ha! See what I did there? Comedic gold! In this case, I had to go into work on a Saturday. After working, I decided to walk around campus with my camera to get some shots (normally there is so much activity, that something like this would put me in the middle of a lot of foot traffic).
I was making my way past The Elevator to Hell when I realized I never took any photos of this structure. So I setup my tripod and took a nice long exposure (due to this hallway being eerily dark). At the time of taking this, I knew what I wanted to do in editing, make it look like it's in hell.
So I opened up Topaz Adjust 5, and started tweaking. I hit on a preset that had a color scheme similar to what I wanted. Then I just needed to adjust the exposure/details. I was looking for a slightly cartoony feel (but not too much), so I really bumped up the adaptive exposure and kept the details relatively low.
The end result is something I'm very proud of (if I remember, I can post the "before" photo). This is technically within the Advanced ruleset (and that's only because of the vignette), and knowing the level of export editing genius around here, I don't expect to place in the top 50%, but we'll see how it goes.
Post Processing;
* Decrease exposure (2 stops)
* Increase recovery, black point, and brightness
* Topaz Adjust 5
* Topaz DeNoise
* Crop
* White balance
* Increase black point
* Increase contrast and definition
* Decrease saturation with much higher vibrancy
* Increase red saturation
* Increase yellow saturation and tint towards red
* Very slight vignette
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG |
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02/10/2012 06:45:51 AM |
| Great processing. Perhaps a "for rent" sign on that last space. ha! |
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02/09/2012 09:23:00 PM |
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02/09/2012 08:09:54 PM |
| I think the bottom button is meant to have my mother in-law̢۪s name :-) |
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02/09/2012 06:19:24 AM |
| One hell of a body corporate |
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02/08/2012 08:40:30 AM |
This kind of remind me of a relative of mine, who changed his name to Beelzebub on the mobile of a very religious auntie, and then called her 3am :D
Well done, I had a good laugh. |
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02/06/2012 10:28:46 PM |
| The last name plate is empty, is there a mystery there? |
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02/04/2012 01:03:36 PM |
| OOOOoooooo this one gives me chills... LOVE LOVE it!!! |
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02/03/2012 12:07:38 PM |
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02/03/2012 11:01:29 AM |
| Hahaha! that's got to be quite the party building... |
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