Photographer’s Notes In the 70’s there was a famous billboard here that said, “Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights.” In today’s economy, Seattle has a little bit of that feeling. It’s no longer a Boeing town exclusively. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google and such, the economy is better diversified.
And this time around we have Mr. Stimulus to help, our beloved president, Barack Obama. Hence the title of the photo.
Post Processing Lots of steps … all pretty subtle:
• Combine 9 images into HDR (Photomatix)
• Tone Map (Photomatix)
• Boost Saturation (Hue/Saturation Layer)
• Boost Contrast (Masked Curves Layer)
• Brighten (Masked Curves layer)
• Remove Distraction (Clone Layer)
• Desaturate (Masked Channel Mixer layer)
• Desaturate (Masked Hue/Saturate Layer)
• Straighten (Edit/Distort)
• Deemphasize Cross Walk (Dodge & Burn Layer)
• Resize (Genuine Fractals)
• Sharpen (USM)
• Save for Web (PS CS4)
Camera Data • Date: 2009-03-21
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikor 12-24 f/4 G IF-ED @ 12 mm
• ISO: 400
• Aperture: f/11
• Shutter: 1666/100000 whatever that means
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