I went to a spot similar to yesterday’s photo, however, this time I visited it during the day, instead of a more unnerving twilight. This old alley-way intrigued me when I went down it many months before. I always wanted to come back and take a photo. For interests sake, the main wall in the photo houses Subway on the inside. And a bakery resides behind the wall on the left.
I thought this photo may have been better if the great big Norfolk(?) Pine wasn’t seemingly growing out of the Subway wall…
Lessons – again I went in, took a few very quick snaps and scuttled off home (I had to return for feral hour…another story). I’d like to take my time some day and scope the site before shooting photos.
I’ve processed this image with a Digikam, UFRaw and GIMP work flow.
I did a bit of manipulation at the RAW stage. I adjusted the White Balance to Daylight, adjusted the exposure, gamma, contrast and saturation. In GIMP, I duplicated the background layer (something I do nearly every time I use GIMP). Then I did an level adjustment, bringing the slider in from the left as it was lacking pixels in this range. I duplicated this layer again and desaturated it with a bias to luminosity (made it B&W). After this, I mucked around with the colour balance for highlights, mid-tones and shadows. I did very little adjustment, but it made a difference to the picture. In this case, if I moved one slider tot he left a little, I’d move a different slider to the right a similar amount. I’m not sure this means they cancels out each other…I didn’t notice if it did. Must pay more attention next time!!
