Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: New Providence, New Jersey, USA
Date: Apr 18, 2006
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 800
Shutter: 0.5
Galleries: Political, History
Date Uploaded: May 9, 2006
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Given the time, this is the editing that should have been done for the Historical and Classical submission to the challenge "Something Old II." The submitted image lacks proper levels and sharpening as I ran out of time. More time for editing could probably do better, but after missing the deadline to resubmit, I stopped after 10 minutes or so.
If you've been to Washington, D.C., you'll notice that the position of the White House and the Washington Monument are about right, although the actual image of the Washington Monument is from the west, not from the north. The image of the Washington Monument is displayed on an LCD monitor, the image of the White House is a print carefully positioned and taped to the LCD monitor. The same White House negative image is inverted, desaturated to monochrome, and printed to fit into the film holder.
It was a challenge to find focus and exposure compromises for the White House in the lens, the Washington Monument background, and the Speed Graphic camera. Composition is boxy like the camera, but that was dictated by overall layout and the image through the lens.
I still think that it was a good idea, other priorities and Murphy's Law prempted the time I needed for a proper submission. I probably shouldn't have sumbitted it, but it still won the dpchallenge at work for the week by default.
PS levels, rotate, crop, curves, resize, USM, save for web. |
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