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I really like #1 - lovely processing...
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Hey, Don!
Both are beautiful pictures, but the first one is my fav!! Beautiful cityscape...
Did you work in these ones those tricks you told the other day you were working with??
If so, they are great! I'd love to know what you did!.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Yes Irma:
I'm flattered. I make an image with high sharpness (what everyone hates). I also increase contrast. These high sharpness images add texture. I may increase saturation too. Then I make a layer of that image and merge it with the original, adjusting trnasparency until I get the desired effect. Sometimes a very low percentage of the high contrast image is visible, sometimes it's higher.
Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens.
http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/