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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 340 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/4.8, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 340 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/4.8, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 340 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/4.8, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
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I've been down with an upper-respiratory infection all weekend, only today realizing that it's not just a cold, so only today I'm finally on some antibiotics. So just a light post today...

While fishing around my Lightroom library for the photo at the end of yesterday's post, I came across another photo taken from the same location (the Imadegawa bridge over the Kamo River) of the bridge itself. It has some simple modern “stone lantern” type things at intervals that I think are pretty, but the ugly city backgrounds make it impossible for me to do much with them photographically.

But I had apparently played with the develop settings on this one in Lightroom, coming up with two opposing views derived from the same original.

This calls to mind posts from two and a half years ago (is Lightroom really that old already?) “Freaky Raw Processing: From Sunset to Moonrise with Adobe Lightroom”, and “Freaky “Artsy” Sharpening with Lightroom”, and from three years ago, “Photoshop’s Darken Blend Mode”

The better one is a photographer, the less one needs to do during post processing, but that doesn't mean that post processing still can't be an outlet for further artistic adventures.

(That being said, I don't claim that there's anything artistic on this post... just something I ran across yesterday and found interesting.)