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Unique decoration
« on: October 27, 2016, 20:19:51 »
Entrance to a restaurant I visited last night
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2016, 22:12:44 »
Nice composition, nice 👍 colors.
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2016, 22:31:10 »
This is very nicely done.
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2016, 23:12:26 »
Eclectic!  I hope the food lived up to the image.
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #4 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
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #5 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?
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2016, 01:53:33 »
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
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2016, 02:09:51 »
Thanks, Armando!  I may want to try this with the moon-and-clouds shots.
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Unique decoration
« Reply #9 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
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