Shot at the "Science on a Sphere" exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science on the UC Berkeley campus. It uses computers to project composite satellite data in 3-D onto a large spherical "screen."
Turns out the best view and exposure was taken with my older camera after my batteries ran down in the newer one.
-Handheld, Auto mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Crop from right
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 255KB
Resized original:
"Advanced Editing" version using masks to even out the lighting at the poles:
Here is a shot of the entrance to the exhibit to show scale, and one shot with a flash to show the interior details which must be accounted-for in setting the exposure parameters, especially if constrained by the Basic editing rules.
I previously used this same prop (last July) for this shot:
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