ISO100
30 Seconds
F5 focussed on the ruins
Manual Exposure - took a couple of shots prior to work it out.
Light on the building is from a street light, light on the clouds is from the town of Christchurch reflecting off of them. The cloud movement is a result of a 30 sec exposure on a windy night...
Colour corrected in Lightroom as the original is much too warm from the street lights.
I use Lightroom for the basic, ie colour casts, white balance, exposure, saturation, etc ... then convert to Tiff and save. That becomes my starting point for any future versions of that image.
The Tiff is then opened in Photoshop where I can use Layers and Layer Masks to correct individual areas, resized for what ever usage I want, sharpened, usually using High Pass Filter sharpening, and that copy saved as a Jpeg. For web use I nearly always use the "Save for Web" function ... which also strips out the exif info.
On my PC I have Faststone Viewer ... great for a quick look at Raw files without opening Lightroom, and of course Lightroom for the basics, Photoshop for the polishing.
Haven't stopped by on your page for a while, but I just dropped by to say that I really like this picture, and I will be dropping by some more, keep up the good work (^_^)
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