Photographer’s Notes My wife and I are building a new house and are looking for ideas to incorporate. So we visited an AIA award winning house this afternoon which was open to the public and (uncharacteristically) photography, according to the signs, was welcomed.
In the house, there was a coffee table with a glass top. It had a drawer just beneath it that you could load with whatever you wanted to show through the top. It looked pretty neat so I snapped a quick picture with my iPhone … the only camera I thought to bring. The leaf is above the glass ... the rest is in the drawer below the glass.
It took a little Photoshop work (but nothing exotic) to bring out the details and colors here. I got to thinking about the drawer in the table and … free associating got to “junk drawer.” Who’s junk drawer? The stuff looked like what might be left over after creating the universe … so God’s Junk Drawer and a title was born.
I like the photo and I hope you do too. Not my “usual style” but hey, anybody can learn new tricks. Not my usual camera, but hey, anybody can improvise, right?
Post Processing • Save 9 - ½ Stop Exposures (-2 to +2) (PSCS4)
• Create HDR Version (Photomatix)
• Tone Map (Photomatix)
• Rotate (PSCS4 Rotate Arbitrary)
• Crop (PSCS4)
• Remove Distraction (PSCS4 Clone layer)
• Increase Saturation (PSCS4 Hue/Sat Layer)
• Increase Contrast (PSCS4 Masked Curves Layer)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS4 Overlay Layer)
• Sharpen (PSCS4 Masked USM Layer)
• Desaturate Green, Blue, Cyan (PSCS4 Masked Hue/Sat Layer)
• Border (PSCS4 Stroke Layer)
• Save for Web
Camera Data • Date: 2009-05-17 1:16:49 PM
• Camera: iPhone 3G
• Aperture: f/2.8
• ISO: Unknown
• Shutter: Unknown
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Amazingly beautiful image and just as amazing that it was taken with an iPhone. Great processing. Never knew that those little phonecams could take such nice sharp detailed shots. We might as well all throw out our expensive bulky DSLR's.
Oh, astonishing. I love the back story. Love the image. As an aside, I've photographed at LEAST 100 AIA award-winning buildings, maybe more, I never kept count...
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
superb! wonderful image, composition, colors, tones. A favorite of mine in the challenge without realizing you used an iPhone--so that is just extra amazing
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
superb! wonderful image, composition, colors, tones. A favorite of mine in the challenge without realizing you used an iPhone--so that is just extra amazing
I was just viewing a few of the entries when I stumbled on this. What a truely fabulous image. So much detail and seemingly random, but when viewing you can see the care that went into the composition. The post processing is awesome too, it has a wonderful 3d feel. Love it! 10
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