Matt Laur 2,201 Posted July 3, 2007 Pushing the limits a bit (and very glad for the VR lens, since this was unplanned and hand-held) on an evening exterior shot. Thanks for looking and comments. Link to comment
Wayne Melia 5,969 Posted September 26, 2007 This must have been an interesting challenge in processing. If it was shot raw/nef, how did you choose white balance and saturation? By judgement as to what you wanted? There doesn't appear to be any identifiable neutral, the light source I guess would be tungsten (tho course they could be flourescents). Thanks for any additional info you care to share. Link to comment
Matt Laur 2,201 Posted October 1, 2007 Wayne: This was indeed shot in RAW. The sun was already set, and it took a third of second (at ISO320) to suck in enough light to capture this (let's hear it for a VR-stabilized lens - no tripod available for this one!). As you can see, the incandescent light fixtures are pretty well blown out, but I was OK with that, since I wanted to be sure to preserve the appearance of the interior of the building, and the flowers outside. Even so, I used Capture NX's "U-Point" widgetry to boost some brightness and contrast where needed. I actually didn't need to monkey with the saturation much at all. Color-balance-wise, that was totally seat of the pants. I picked a spot on the roof gutter, and the manually tweaked the balance. The good news: I sold this image to the proprieters, who are now using it in their promotional material. Link to comment
Landrum Kelly 64 Posted October 25, 2010 Matt, there has been many a night that the contrast between interior "reddish" or at least warm lighting and exterior bluish lighting has made a mark on me, but I have never seen a more dramatic example of this contrast than this one--and hand-held at that! What really great work!--Lannie Link to comment
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