The lamp at the top of a house, taken shortly after midnight on a street in Baton Rouge. I had to do some massive fighting with my tripod on this, leading me to finally give in and order a new one. Editing was minor.
In a sense, this is actually an out-take from that night. It's a much shorter exposure and tighter crop version of a shot of the entire top of the house, including intricate green and dark shadows along the surface. What was (to me) the more interesting shot was marred by a few visible imperfections that I suspect would have caused it to do poorly in the challenge, however. I'll post the alternate when I do my post-mortem for this challenge.
Editing steps:
1) Import from RAW, reducing contrast and shadows somewhat
2) Crop
3) Noise Ninja
4) Sharpen
5) Resize
6) Mild resharpen
7) Export to jpg
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Whee, an image that got nearly uniformly positive comments, and tanked. :)
Oh well. I knew this wasn't the most compelling of my images, but I thought the wood texture and shadows, both off the lamp and off the leaves, would bring it up some.
I had an alternate shot that emphasized the green shadows, but suffered from a few minor but visible technical flaws that I expected would get it hammered even worse, so I went with the cleaner, but less interesting shot. I guess it wasn't interesting enough. I'll try to write up a post-mortem a bit faster than my last one.
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