Captured a few shots while walking around Saint Paul over the last couple days.
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Monthly Archive for August, 2009
Took this picture over lunch on a very bright sunny day at Mears Park. The background is so dark because of a combination of reasons. One, I was trying to isolate the flower and have the background be blurry. To do this requires a large aperture. Second, a large aperture lets in a lot of light. Third, it was very bright out and a lot of light means I had to have a really short shutter speed of 1/3000th of a second. Fourth and finally, there was a rock bench behind the flower that was in shadows, and with such a short shutter speed it was not exposed and became blackish.
On my main monitor this image looked great right out of the camera, but I noticed some very pronounced odd brownish color artifacts on the red sections of the flower petals when viewed on my old LCD monitor. Because I thought a bunch of you would also see these artifacts, I decided to try and eliminate them. I ended up doing some contrast curves on the red channel to get rid of the artifacts. I hope it looks good now, and that I didn’t cause other problems.
Let me know what you think!
- Lunch On A Flower
Went out walking tonight during sunset and stumbled upon the Riverview Cemetery. Everytime I have ever been to a cemetery it has always been bright and sunny, and the sunset really adds a different perspective.
Riverview Cemetery
Riverview Cemetery
Riverview Cemetery
