Restriction II

Restriction was taken in the hotel balcony I was staying at. I saw that there was quite an interesting line structure emerging from the balcony ledge. So, I took advantage of the moment.

By taking the image shown below. I was quite happy with the initial outcome as I thought I composed it quite well, capturing all the lines.

The unedited shot can be seen below:

EXIF Data

• Nikon D3000
• 1/13 Seconds
• f/5.6
• 55mm (Using 18-55 VR 3.5-5.6/f, VR on)
• 800 ISO
• 0EV

I felt that the shot lacked impact and punch. That is why the following edits were made.

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Adobe Lightroom 2.5

1. White balanced adjusted - Warmer
2. Decreased exposure
3. Increased blacks
4. Increased the vibrancy
5. Increased contrast
6. Recalibrated the shadow tint

From the edits done here, the image now looked like this:

From here the image was fine tuned in photoshop.

1. Shadows/Highlights - used to increase the highlights in the piece
2. Increased the saturation whilst decreasing the lightness.
3. Converted into the grey-scale through the use of a black and white gradient map
4. Added borders and watermark


After the processing done in Photoshop, the final outcome was achieved.