Taken at a protest rally by the Rainforest Coalition during the annual Chevron board meeting.
All adjustments done in Aperture:
- Crop
- Convert to black and white: adjusted Red (30%), Green (59%), Blue (11%)
- Increased Higlights to 65 to knock down brightness on posters
- Adjusted levels
- Exposer: adjusted black point to -1.25
- Exported
Pass thru unsharp mask in CS5 to sharpen for web display.
Don't expect this to do real well but wanted to enter it anyways.
[Jun. 6th, 2010 11:50:10 PM]
During Voting:
- For those that commented about the faces. I kept the faces dark to draw more of the attention to the signs. Guess maybe I should have lightened the faces up some.
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I like the scene you captured and what is being conveyed, though I think it could have used a little selective editing to bring out some details from the strong shadows. Especially woman's face, which is where my eye is drawn.
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