Thursday, February 12, 2009

Street views


Clouds over Helsinki, originally uploaded by jiihaa.


Reflections, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Today was yet another busy day at work. These photographs are from yesterday, while I was in Helsinki. I haven't done many urban landscape photos, but I feel these two are not too bad. I did some processing in LightZone and some cropping to bring out the colors and the subject better.

2 comments:

Markus Spring said...

Harmonious color in this one. Did you use a lot of postprocessing here or was it simply this way?

Juha Haataja said...

The color was like this. What I did in LightZone was slight, and actually opposite things for the two images.

In the first, I increased overall and local contrast to bring out the reflections in the bus windows etc. In the second, I lightened the shadows to better show the colors. I overexposed a bit to somehow cope with the large dynamic range here. (RAW would have helped here.)