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Taken at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. A display called Expression, loved the surreal feel in a museum environment. Comments always appreciated. Thanks
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D3100  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED [II]  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 17 Apr 2011 - 11:27 AM |
| Focal Length: | 32mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/4.1 |
| Aperture: | f/4.5 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/10sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| Title: | Floating Heads |
| Username: | 
bgrunes |
| Uploaded: | 14 Jul 2012 - 2:36 PM |
| Tags: | Architecture, General, Specialist / abstract |
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its a great slight i live some 5 mins away from this place and as you rightly say it has a surreal feel but different and very pleasing.
If i was you i would have upped the iso so that you had much faster shutter speed as you have lost the colour in the stonework (a Tad overexposed). I tried to adjust using software but failed so cannot upload a mod for you. Every time i go there i shoot the expressions.
Graham
Its a good shot, - one weve seen here a few times.
Graham has mentioned the colour of the stonework, and thats due to the white balance the camera has chosen, - likely having been in Auto White Balance, which works most of the time, but not always. Manually choosing an appropriate setting may have worked better.
Its possible to corect this to some extent in post processing, but this works best if the riginal is shot in RAW for complete control over WB.
The verticals are a little off, so in the mod Ive straightened these, adjusted the colour balance to be warmer, and sharpened some of the faces only.
To correct a colour imbalance, heres a link:
http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=24. You will need a version of Photoshop that has a curves adjustment capability.
Hope this is helpful,
regards
Willie
RAW files are opened by a RAW converter programme, which will allow you to, among many other things:
Adjust exposure, as if you were taking the shot all over again with a different setting
Change white balance after the fact, no matter what white balance you had set.
Remove noise.
Sharpen
Automatically correct lens aberrations
Adjust contrast
Adjust colour
The benefit is that all these adjustments are done on a RAW file, - meaning its what the sensor catured with no adjustments or compression applied, so your changes do not, like adjusting a JPEG which already has adjustments pre-applied, cause ANY loss of quality or detail through file compression.
W
I also have used Aperture. Put it this way, - it like comparing an Austin Mini to a Ferrari, - has nowhere near the capabilities of Photoshop, or Lightroom. Its really a photo organizer, like iPhoto, with a few extra capabilities thrown in that many free image editors have.
W
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