Deeper Issues II

Whilst walking the streets of Shanghai, I took a number of experimental shots. One was a panning shot whilst the rest was just abstract shots. This can be seen in the screenshot below.

Shots were taken with a 18-55mm VR lens attached to a D3000 body.

All in all, I chose the experimental panning shot. The unedited version can be seen below.

This is quite a nice photo already but I really wanted to make different, and experimental.

The exif data for this shot is as follows

• Nikon D3000
• 1/15 Seconds
• f/5.0
• 30mm (Using 18-55 VR 3.5-5.6/f, VR on)
• 200 ISO
• 0EV

From here I started editing in Adobe Lightroom 2.5.

1. Increased the exposure and recovery of the photo (to preserve highlights)

2. Increase brightness whilst decreasing contrast

3. Cropped image severly

4. Adjusted curves (image provided)

5. Toned the highlights and shadows with greyish colours.

6. Added vignette

After Lightroom adjustments, the image was moved into Adobe Photoshop Cs3.

1. Sharpened
2. Added borders
3. Resized and converted to proper printing format and size.

After photoshop and lightroom adjustments, the photograph looked like this.

Jonathan Lim.