Baltimore City Hall
I got to take some "landmark" photos after all. Having a pocketable camera sure helps.I went to a karaoke meetup late afternoon yesterday. The bar is just 1/2-block from the back side of City Hall, and the dramatic lighting of the dome prompted me to get a shot for our forum.
At ISO 800, the resolution and lack of noise is remarkable. The exposure was f/4.5 @ 1/25 sec with a focal length equivalent to 60mm. The lack of motion blur testifies to the effectiveness of the modern digicam image stabilization.
This is image was taken as a jpg, but I decided to open it in Camera Raw to see if it needed tweaking of exposure, color balance, etc. I just gave it a smidge more exposure (interstingly, left to its own devices, the camera did not blow out the highlights on the dome) and left everything else the same. In Photoshop CS3, I only used the Distort filter to correct the vertical perspective. Then a little cropping.
The only sharpening I did was after I did a Save for Web, in order to counteract the inherent softening in the resizing process.To so some more pixel-peeping, click on this image to see a screen capture of a portion of the photo viewed at 100% in PS C3.
Labels: Baltimore, Canon S90, City Hall, Project Feb. 2010
posted by Steve Rosenbach at 2:53 PM
7 comments
7 Comments:
Nice images, Steve. I really like the one of the dome in the top right. Very dramatic.
Oh cool, I would not have noticed a neon green clock without that closeup!! I like the other shot too, great lighting effects.
Steve, I am with Lea, the lighting of the second shot is excellent. The s90 is really fun.
Dan
Steve,
Nice little camera. The guy behind the lens seems to be able to compose the pictures. Like Dan and Lea, I like the second shot. The details and the little green clock makes for a nice picture.
**Dolph
Steve, your killing me! I'm going to have to run out and buy me a S90 pretty soon, if you keep posting these great pictures.
--WT
p.s. Just kidding, don't stop, I love seeing what you can do with that little camera :)
I think both images are the same shot. The 2nd image is just a cropped portion of the original so show the image quality, right Steve?
The lighting on the dome is very dramatic, and the exposure in the final, original image is perfect.
--WT
Warren's right - the 2nd image is just a screen capture of a portion of the 1st photo, viewed at 100% in Photohop. That's what I meant by "pixel peeping" ;-)
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