Stand Still II

It took a number of tries to finally get what I wanted. I wanted to get one or more people sharp whilst having blur in the background through the movement of people. I had to take a number attempts because the shots had quite a long shutter speed and I did not have tripod, so it was handheld. Here's a screenshot of the series of shots taken.

From here I chose image 134. Here is the unedited version of this photograph.

The exif data for this shot is as follows:

• Nikon D3000
• 2.5 Seconds
• f/29.0
• 35mm (Using 18-55 VR 3.5-5.6/f, VR on)
• 100 ISO
• 0EV

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EDITS

Adobe Lightroom 2.5

1. Blacks and recovery increased

2. Brightness and contrast increased

3. Fill light increased to further wide the dynamic range

4. Clarity increased

5. Vibrancy increased

6. Cropped heavily, to create a much more simplier composition


Adobe Photoshop CS3

1. Sharpened through the unsharpen mask and high pass filter.

2. Resized to image to a3 print size (dpi, pixels & etcera)
3. Added borders.

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After the final edits it looked like this.

Jonathan Lim