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06-APR-2014 Joshua Tanzer

See You

Hoboken, NJ, USA

With a portrait of the New York City skyline, if you look really close.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III
1/60s f/11.0 at 130.0mm iso200 full exif

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Joshua Tanzer08-Apr-2014 20:26
Thanks, Traveller. I will try that in the future. (I didn't know about DPP before -- wish I had!)
Canon Image Challenge08-Apr-2014 12:44
let me share another trick with DPP if I have not said it in the past that I find very useful. If you are on the RAW tab hit Control T which will bring up the Tools Pallet and then grab the left side vertical bar on the histogram window, and drag it to the right to roughly -5 or -4 depending on the image and that ads natural contrast to the image. If you don't have a raw image to work with then you can do the same thing on the jpeg tab instead of using the brightness and contrast sliders which affects the image differently. If you use the sliders over the vertical bar the top histo bar drops and it has a negative affect on the final image IMHO. I dropped a sample in pending with that adjustment. Paul
Canon Image Challenge08-Apr-2014 09:22
This is already much better...Paul, our resident technical expert in these matters talked me into finally converting to RAW and using DPP that we all have...it is so simple, I don't know why I refused to leave the jpeg format for so long...if you haven't used DPP, it will give you, in RAW only though, 2 stops either way of exposure...very useful actually.

Then contrast, click one or two, Shadow minus 1, I don't know why but this works, and them maybe one click of saturation, or not, and less than a minute you are done. I have come to rely on DPP

Just a suggestion.

Best Wishes, Traveller
Joshua Tanzer08-Apr-2014 07:02
Thanks, Traveller. I am not a Photoshop or post-processing genius in any way. I did add some contrast and it does look a little sharper. -- Joshua
Guest 08-Apr-2014 04:59
Let me further add that working on this image should be a labor of love...so why not play with it? And again...and again...hey, you've got those eyes always staring back at you...not a bad reference point....Best Wishes, Traveller
Guest 08-Apr-2014 04:58
This is not a bad picture...but it seriously needs some post processing...added contrast especially...the idea is excellent, but the image needs work. I would not be a friend if I didn't tell you this. With Respect and Very Best Wishes, Traveller