Photographer’s Notes So I’m in Las Vegas for Photoshop World and I found two evenings and one day to “shoot the strip.” It’s full of interesting people and full of interesting buildings. It’s a target rich environment if there ever was one.
When I woke up Saturday it was cloudy and the skies were the white softbox kind of sky we see in Seattle but around 3:00 it cleared and I hit the streets.
I shot a lot of subjects and these days I almost always bracket my exposures. That buys me some exposure insurance and lets me composite HDR images if I want to. So in this case I was shooting 7 frames 2/3 of an f/stop apart. Overkill, probably but this is what I do when I shoot real estate and it’s become a habit. And in this case I did the HDR thing to manage the challenging exposure.
The wall is part of the Luxor Hotel/Casino at the south end of the strip.
Post Processing • Merge RAW to HDR (Photomatix)
• Tone Map (Photomatix)
• Brighten (PSCS5 Curves Layer – Masked)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS5 Screen Layer)
• Crop (PSCS5)
• Resize (Genuine Fractals)
• Sharpen (PSCS5 High Pass Filter)
• Save for Web (PSCS5)
Camera Data • Date: 2011-09-10
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
• ISO: 200
• Aperture: f/22
• Shutter: Various 1/25 to 1/400 Handheld
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This looks even better tha what I can remember when you first showed it. Great score and a better image than what the score reflects. Another boost for the Long Shots.. Working hard Doc :)
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