Thanks. I guess I'm leaning that way as well. I kinda would like to have
the building a bit brighter, but I'll have to work on my PS layering
skills. The way it is, since it was dusk, #2 is probably closer to reality.
What would have been more awesomer would have been a second sun behind me,
front-lighting the building to make it pop with the dark stormy clouds and
pink highlights behind it. But unlike Tatooine, we only have one Sun.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Make that Plus 2. I'm w/CB.
> On Oct 6, 2014 11:30 AM, "Paul Braun" <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Sheri and I went to LaSalle, IL yesterday to ride the replica passenger
> > packet boat on a section of restored Illinois & Michigan Canal. (Those
> > photos to come later).
> >
> > On the way home, we stopped in Seneca, IL just before sunset so I could
> get
> > a photo of the M. J. Hogan grain elevator, one of the oldest original
> > structures along the I&M. It was opened in 1862, and is still standing.
> > Back in its heyday, it could move 750,000 bushels of grain in a season.
> >
> > I know there are canals everywhere, but the I&M is part of my heritage as
> a
> > native Chicagoan. Prior to the I&M, Chicago was a small trading post on
> the
> > lake. Any goods that needed to get to or from Chicago had to be carried
> > over land through some pretty rough terrain, so it wasn't that popular of
> > an option. The Canal allowed the movement of commodities from the East
> > coast, throught the Great Lakes, along the I&M to the Illinois River,
> then
> > to the Mississippi and down to the Gulf. Suddenly, Chicago became a
> center
> > of commerce.
> >
> > Unlike the Erie, which has been modified, enlarged, and rebuilt over the
> > years, the I&M was officially abandoned in 1933 when the newer Illinois
> > Waterway system was opened. Parts have been restored as a park, parts
> were
> > filled in, parts are just dry and/or overgrown with weeds. For me, it's
> > like finding an abandoned old highway overgrown with trees and weeds.
> Most
> > people don't even know it's there - for example, here in Seneca, it just
> > looks like a drainage ditch. The majority of people who drive over it
> have
> > no clue that it was once a superhighway through Illinois. I like to try
> and
> > keep the history alive in tribute to the thousands of men, mostly Irish,
> > who worked to dig all 96 miles of it by hand, many of whom died in the
> > process (although nobody kept any records to indicate who died).
> >
> > I shot a bunch on the tripod, then packed it up and walked across the
> > street to shoot a view of the overgrown prism (official terminology for
> the
> > canal bed, since a cross-section was prism-shaped) looking the other way.
> > As I crossed back, I looked up and suddenly a bit of sun had broken
> through
> > the heavy clouds and there were pink highlights... damn! I ran back to
> > where I was before, extending tripod legs as I ran, plugged the cable
> > release back in, and shot a 7-shot bracketed burst about 10 seconds
> before
> > the pink disappeared. I had less than one minute to grab that shot.
> >
> > I've posted two versions - one that's a single frame, tweaked a bit in LR
> > to saturate the pink a bit more and to de-saturate the green a touch.
> The
> > other one was processed in HDR Efex 2 at a lighter setting. I'm not 100%
> > sure which one I like. There seems to be some slight haloing in the HDR
> one
> > - maybe if I tried again and left the brightest frame out of the mix...
> >
> > Lemmeno whatchu think.
> >
> > Non-HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14626
> >
> > HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14629
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> >
> > Paul Braun
> > Certified Music Junkie
> >
> > "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold
> Auerbach
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