Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » One More From Last Year’s Eikando Temple Fall Colors

by Jeffrey Friedl Mon, October 24th, 2011 9:44pm JST (13 years ago)

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a styalized autumn scene at the Eikando Temple, Kyoto Japan

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/11, ISO 3600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Above the Eikando Temple
Kyoto, Japan

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As I mentioned the other day in “Kyoto Fall-Color Preview With Impact: Impressionism in Lightroom”, I stumbled across an artsy photo treatment in Lightroom that gives an interesting life to most any photo it's applied to. The more I played with it, the more I felt its gimmicky intensity is like the Auto Tune for images (Auto Tune is an audio-processing technique that can make most any singer sound in tune). I avoided it in the followup(“Kyoto's Eikando Temple Continues to Amaze”), but it's hard to leave it completely alone, so here are a few more...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 2800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Wall of Fire

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Local Residence
( the original is here )

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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 2800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Smile

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 3200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Opposite

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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Canopy

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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/800 sec, f/2.2, ISO 200 — full exif
Bottleneck

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Here's one that's darker and more monochrome than the others. I don't know whether it “works”, but is worth a try...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/1.4, ISO 450 — full exif
Queue

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Finally, here's one for which I dialed the saturation way down, to give it a pastel-ish feeling...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Pastel

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October	19th,	2011	Kyoto Fall-Color Preview With Impact: Impressionism in Lightroom
October	20th,	2011	Kyoto's Eikando Temple Continues To Amaze
December	14th,	2011	Context for the Bamboo-and-Leaf Photo, and Some Crazy Post-Processing
March	18th,	2012	Funky Kyoto Marathoners: More Lightroom Processing Fun (and a mini challenge)

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It would be interesting to see the results of using this effect on a selectively-focused photo taken with an aspherical lens.

— comment by Tom on October 24th, 2011 at 11:53pm JST (13 years ago) — comment permalink

I think these pictures might look good with the Orton Effect too.

http://pcin.net/update/2006/11/01/the-orton-effect-digital-photography-tip-of-the-week/

— comment by Different Tom on October 29th, 2011 at 8:33am JST (13 years ago) — comment permalink