Thursday, Sept 21, 2023

[Dave]

I took an early walk yesterday, so early that this west-facing scene of utility meters behind a sushi restaurant got no direct light from the brightening eastern sky and very little from the still dark sky overhead. So I had to shoot at such s slow shutter speed that I was quite lucky that the shots weren't way out of focus due to hand shakes.

Took it into Camera Raw and increased exposure 100%, then into PSE for more exposure adjustments followed by extensive noise reduction. A little USM here and there gave me this...

   

I think it turned out slightly interesting but I wasn't happy with the colors so I converted it ti grayscale and slightly tweaked the value contrast for this B&W version. Not sure if it 's an improvement...