"Cobblestones of San Juan"

Wilson- So wonderful to see this in one of my photo magazines. Knew it was yours right off :) Memorable photo!

Congratulations on winning the Islands Magazine Photo Contest (June 2007 issue). I was flipping through the magazine in the doctors office when I saw your image. I remembered seeing it here on Photo.net. It put a smile on my face. Thanks!! Kim

Phil, thanks for your suggestion. I kind of like the natural distortion of that window reflection at bottom left of frame as that really is what it was. Other than the merging of the exposures, I wanted to keep this pretty much unaltered.

 

Jayme, thanks. Glad you recognized it. ^_^

 

Kim, thanks and happy to be able to put a smile on your face in the clinic!

Amazing photo, Wilson. Exquisite light, comp and timing. It should be a classic IMO.

An excellent photo with perfect exposure and very interesting view point. Congrats !

Hi Wilson,

I am curious has to how large of a print you can output before noticing any of the photo's manipulation in your incredibly nice image. I was reading Kim Shultz's comment and she mentioned seeing the image in a magazine, was this a full page image appearance? Also do you mention to publisher's that a photo is edited?

 

Thanks,

Paul Bratescu :)

Hi Wilson,I am curious has to how large of a print you can output before noticing any of the photo's manipulation in your incredibly nice image. I was reading Kim Shultz's comment and she mentioned seeing the image in a magazine, was this a full page image appearance? Also do you mention to publisher's that the photo is edited, or it does'nt matter?

f8, 1/15, 1/30, and 1/250 sec were you settings for all 3 exposures, I understand that, but what I dont understand is how you were able to align the images up in your editing program so easily with 3 different set focal legnths?

Again and incredible image.

Thanks,Paul Bratescu :)

I've come to this image late. It's fabulous, as are some of your night-time riverfront scenes in my home town, Chicago.

Anyway, I was SHOCKED to see f8. How do you get this depth of field at f8? Is it that these little digital cameras have such tiny lenses and sensors that they enable depth of field like nothing we've seen in 35mm? You list three different shutter speeds and manually bringing out the highlights from one exposure, shadow detail from another....kinda like HDR before it was provided by Photomatix and others. But you don't mention three different focusing distances. So I think you focused at something close to a hyper-focal distance, but I am still astonished at the depth of field achieved in this image. Very nicely done.

Kurt

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