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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: armando_m on October 27, 2016, 20:19:51

Title: Unique decoration
Post by: armando_m on October 27, 2016, 20:19:51

Entrance to a restaurant I visited last night

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: MFloyd on October 27, 2016, 22:12:44

Nice composition, nice 👍 colors.

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: elsa hoffmann on October 27, 2016, 22:31:10

This is very nicely done.

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: Anthony on October 27, 2016, 23:12:26

Eclectic!  I hope the food lived up to the image.

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: armando_m on October 28, 2016, 00:00:08

Thank you Elsa, MFloyd, and Anthony

yes the food and service was fantastic

Some technicals ...

V1 10mm f2.8 lens ISO 2800

Used the "smart photo" setting which takes a burst of 5 images, internally it picks the best and it is the one shown to the user, but all 5 images are available in RAW.
Since the noise is a problem above 400..800 I stacked the 5 images in PS with progresively reduced opacity resulting in reduced noise
Colors are the result of some liberal processing after the photo merge

The technique is ok if taking 1 or 2 shots with static subjects, not really practical beyond that

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: Akira on October 28, 2016, 00:29:23

This is pleasantly strange!  The processing technique is as intriguing as the image itself.  :)

You mean, you can stack five "same" frames (meaning, RAW files) with reduced opacity?

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: armando_m on October 28, 2016, 01:53:33

Quote from: Akira on October 28, 2016, 00:29:23

This is pleasantly strange!  The processing technique is as intriguing as the image itself.  :)

You mean, you can stack five "same" frames (meaning, RAW files) with reduced opacity?

Sure, auto align them , then leave the bottom at 1/1 opacity, next at 1/2, next 1/3 ... etc

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: Akira on October 28, 2016, 02:09:51

Thanks, Armando!  I may want to try this with the moon-and-clouds shots.

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: Erik Lund on October 31, 2016, 10:06:52

I would choose to make the wb more warm, to avoid the blue cast, and pull down the highlights or make it into B&W.

Title: Re: Unique decoration
Post by: armando_m on October 31, 2016, 15:52:59

Thanks fr the comment Erik

Blue light is coming from outside the building, there is led lights on the street, I did play with the WB in processing and that blue light was not evident
black and white, yes maybe I'll give it a try