Re: Nathan's PAW 30: A walk in Lisbon

Thanks, Mark.

As for exposure--I do the adjustments on a monitor that is calibrated using a Spyder. They look fine to me there. What may be happening is that I have recently upgraded to Photoshop CS and may be using the "highlight and shadow" adjustment too aggressively. When I look at the pictures on my laptop, then they also look too bright, but of course this is on an uncalibrated LCD screen.

Maybe I need to go for an overall darker tone in the pictures and/or recalibrate my monitor--it has been several months since I last did it.

Nathan

Mark Bohrer wrote:
Nathan:
I like the retreating perspective of the repeating arches in the last alternate best.

All of these images look a little overexposed with the 'glow' I mentioned last time. They almost appear light-struck. If they look OK on your monitor after scanning and level adjustment in Photoslop maybe your monitor is out of calibration. Gretag-Macbeth and Spyder make monitor calibration hardware/software packages if you want to calibrate.


At 10:47 PM 7/24/2004, you wrote:

This is a real PAW--the film was exposed, processed, and scanned this week. As I have mentioned, I had to go to Portugal on Tuesday morning to attend the funeral of a colleague who had been killed in an accident at the weekend. The funeral was Tuesday afternoon and I took no pictures there. But my flight back to Amsterdam was at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, so I had the morning free to walk around Lisbon a bit. I took the metro to the neighborhood called Baixa and spent 3 hours walking around. The four images are all from that walk. They are a bit touristy, but OK--that's what I was doing, being a tourist.

Here is a classic Lisbon image. The old streetcars are kept in service partly because their small size fits some of the streets in the old part of the city, and partly because they are a tourist attraction in their own right:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_30.jpg

Everybody in Iberia has a mobile phone and spends much of their time talking on it or otherwise fiddling with it:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_30alt1.jpg

One of Lisbon's main squares is Praca de Comercio. It is huge and is probably one of the most photographed places in Portugal:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_30alt2.jpg

The last alternate is also from the Praca de Comercio. The buildings surrounding the square are mostly various government ministries:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_30alt3.jpg

The complete PAW index is at:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2004.html
and comments and critique are welcome and appreciated as always.

Nathan
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