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City in the sky
City in the sky
tokyoahead


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Challenge: Free Study 2010-03 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Hong Kong
Date: Mar 24, 2010
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 24, 2010

 Exposure, Contrast, crop, straighten,

[Apr. 7th, 2010 10:11:26 PM]

Since some people wanted to know how I did this, here is how the whole city looked like when I took this shot:


Thanks for all the comments! Highly appreciated!

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 04/09/2010 12:31:38 PM
I agree with bvy, for the most part. You don't want to kill a lot of the fine fluffy detail in something like this. You want to bring it out. A high radius unsharp mask is a good way of improving local contrast without killing detail. It can be used far more subtly and with more control than curves or the contrast adjustment. Ron Bigelow has a good series of articles on his site about how to use this for best effect.

04/08/2010 09:11:54 PM
Originally posted by scooter88:
Could use a little more contrast but over all nice shot. 7

No! The contrast was perfect. You would have risked losing too much detail if you started fussing with levels or curves. In this case, the subject, the composition alone, delivers all the impact.
 04/08/2010 12:05:57 AM
this is the outtake of the shot:
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/07/2010 05:05:37 PM
Just incredible. I've been wanting to get a shot like this for years.
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 04/06/2010 11:50:20 AM
That's a pretty cool effect. I wonder how this would look with just a touch more contrast? Seems a little flat in tonal range.
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 04/06/2010 10:28:31 AM
Could use a little more contrast but over all nice shot. 7
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 04/04/2010 03:39:19 PM
Great shot! Wonder how you took that one!
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 04/02/2010 03:42:32 PM
ok like,,,,hehe,,,, and i can see Lucy in 233 b,,,, give 7
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 04/01/2010 08:07:59 PM
I can see the headlines now:
"Global warming deniers emboldened by record snowfall that buries city"
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 04/01/2010 05:58:03 PM
not strong enough subject for me. 4
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