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Intellectual Capitol
Intellectual Capitol
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-03 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Location: Olympia, Washington (USA)
Date: Mar 15, 2008
Aperture: F/2.8
ISO: 3200
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Interior, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Mar 15, 2008

 Photographer’s Notes
State Capitol building, Olympia, Washington (USA). I shot this after driving 80 miles (each way) on a day replete with low clouds, driving rain, and multiple injury accidents (not involving me, thankfully) along the freeway which delayed my progress. It’s not the greatest length I’ve gone to for a photo, but it’s up there.

To put things in perspective, the chandelier is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.

After nearly 4 months with my new D3, I feel like I’ve finally bonded with it. I feel like this image does a pretty good job showing off the low light performance of the camera. Without ISO 3200 – I would never have been able to capture this in natural light. Pushing my old D200 that far would have been a noise disaster. I did apply slight noise reduction here, but it took very little.

Post Processing
There was a lot of editing but the change from original to as-edited was subtle. It was nearly perfect out of the camera.
• Convert from Raw (PS CS3)
• Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
• Deemphasize Blues (Hue/Saturation Layer)
• Deemphasize Yellows (Hue/Saturation Layer)
• Lighten (Curves Layer)
• Increase Contrast (Curves Layer)
• A Bit More Brightening and Contrast (Brightness/Contrast Layer)
• Clone Two Distracting Windows (Clone Tool)
• Soften an Overly Bright Area (Color Layer)
• Resize (Bicubic Sharper)
• Sharpen (USM)
• Border (Select & Stroke)
• Save for Web
Resizing and Save for Web took file size from 156 MB to 200 KB!

Camera Data
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikor 24-70 f2.8 @ 24
• Date: 2008-03-14
• ISO: 3200
• Aperture: f/2.8
• Shutter: 1/400

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/16/2008 06:33:50 AM
'Tis a lovely dome, and very well handled from the composition to the processing. I like your collection of domes posted here, too - neat to see them all!
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 04/08/2008 12:13:30 AM
Originally posted by yospiff:
This building is starting to look familiar after the last couple of challenges. Well done on this.


Yes we've seen a lot of capital domes. It was just my time to try one. There's:

Colorado
Texas
Michigan
Virginia
Iowa
California
Pennsylvania [thumb]602021[/thumb]

But I think this is the only one from Washington, the State.

Message edited by author 2008-04-08 00:15:24.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/04/2008 10:20:27 PM
Interesting composition and I really like the colors.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 04/04/2008 09:27:58 PM
This building is starting to look familiar after the last couple of challenges. Well done on this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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