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Hell's Apartment
Hell's Apartment
giantmike


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Challenge: Magic & Mystery II (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Verona, WI
Date: Jan 28, 2012
Aperture: 5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1.6
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2012

 Sometimes opportunities just reveal themselves like magic. Ha! See what I did there? Comedic gold! In this case, I had to go into work on a Saturday. After working, I decided to walk around campus with my camera to get some shots (normally there is so much activity, that something like this would put me in the middle of a lot of foot traffic).

I was making my way past The Elevator to Hell when I realized I never took any photos of this structure. So I setup my tripod and took a nice long exposure (due to this hallway being eerily dark). At the time of taking this, I knew what I wanted to do in editing, make it look like it's in hell.

So I opened up Topaz Adjust 5, and started tweaking. I hit on a preset that had a color scheme similar to what I wanted. Then I just needed to adjust the exposure/details. I was looking for a slightly cartoony feel (but not too much), so I really bumped up the adaptive exposure and kept the details relatively low.

The end result is something I'm very proud of (if I remember, I can post the "before" photo). This is technically within the Advanced ruleset (and that's only because of the vignette), and knowing the level of export editing genius around here, I don't expect to place in the top 50%, but we'll see how it goes.

Post Processing;
* Decrease exposure (2 stops)
* Increase recovery, black point, and brightness
* Topaz Adjust 5
* Topaz DeNoise
* Crop
* White balance
* Increase black point
* Increase contrast and definition
* Decrease saturation with much higher vibrancy
* Increase red saturation
* Increase yellow saturation and tint towards red
* Very slight vignette
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

Statistics
Place: 27 out of 55
Avg (all users): 5.9423
Avg (commenters): 7.4286
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Views since voting: 543
Views during voting: 317
Votes: 156
Comments: 9
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 02/10/2012 06:45:51 AM
Great processing. Perhaps a "for rent" sign on that last space. ha!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
OM System OM-5
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
02/09/2012 09:23:00 PM
Well done 8
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/09/2012 08:09:54 PM
I think the bottom button is meant to have my mother in-law’s name :-)
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Canon EOS-5DS R
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 02/09/2012 06:19:24 AM
One hell of a body corporate
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Samsung GX-10
Pentax SMC-F 50mm f/1.7
 02/08/2012 08:40:30 AM
This kind of remind me of a relative of mine, who changed his name to Beelzebub on the mobile of a very religious auntie, and then called her 3am :D
Well done, I had a good laugh.
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 02/06/2012 10:28:46 PM
The last name plate is empty, is there a mystery there?
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 02/04/2012 01:03:36 PM
OOOOoooooo this one gives me chills... LOVE LOVE it!!!
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro
 02/03/2012 12:07:38 PM
Like the idea,nice one.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 02/03/2012 11:01:29 AM
Hahaha! that's got to be quite the party building...
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