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This image was taken at July-18 2018 in Baden<\/a> – a beautiful Swiss old town a couple of miles away from my home. Wandering around, throught the narrow alleyways near the L\u00f6wenbrunnen I was heading to the St. Niklausstiege, where I wanted to have a look at the steep steps up to the Schlossruine Stein – please see this Google Map Link<\/a> for all those locations. Just in front of the stairs I spotted the strong contrasts on a scaffold – constructing machinery everywhere – I’d rather be very careful not to disturb the ongoing renovation work and not to set up the workmen!<\/p>\n I wanted to catch the strong reflections on the scaffold contrasting the dark buildings, making a beautiful silhouette to the sky, and all in direct backlight. I had a clear vision of the final image I wanted.<\/p>\n I took only a couple of photos, waiting for the right moment, when no workman was on the scaffold.<\/p>\n This is the original file, without any corrections, straight out of the camera. As always I was using simple and minimal gear: My Ricoh GR II<\/a>, GR Lens f=18.3 mm 1:2.8. ISO 100, 1\/1000 s, at f8, shot in .DNG RAW format.<\/p>\n After importing the file in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom<\/a> I made some basic corrections.<\/p>\n Lens corrections basic Lens corrections manual Sharpening Details: Noise Reduction in Luminance and Color were both disabled, resp. set to 0.<\/p>\n Effects I preferred having my image in monochrome and fine tonality, but wanted to keep the color information in my file.<\/p>\n Saturation Luminance Temperature and Tint The contrast settings overall were left at 0, but there were some corrections in the tone curve.<\/p>\n It was corrected using one simple mask with minimal corrections.<\/p>\n After all I exported my image to .jpg.<\/p>\n Please note the fine details within the shadows – they are not completely black – and the huge plasticity of the sky.<\/p>\n I love it. It’s one of my favourites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Did you like this image? Your comment in the comment section below is highly appreciated, thank you!<\/p>\n Home<\/a> Here is the making of another image no one loves – at least it seems like that! – but me. It is one of my favourites. In one of my previous posts I started my series ‘favourite #[number]. no one loves – but me’, which shows the making of one of my much beloved, but […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,399],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-monochrome","8":"category-photography","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7487,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/7487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The original file<\/h2>\n
\n![\"favourite](\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0320928-SOOC.jpg\")
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\nOriginal .DNG SOOC, converted to .jpg without any corrections.<\/p>\nTechnical details<\/h2>\n
Editing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom<\/h2>\n
\n– Enable Profile Corrections: enabled
\nbtw:\u00a0Thank you @Michael Kowalczyk Photography for creating the geometric Lens Correction Profile File for the RICOH GR I & II<\/a> and for publishing it – thank you!
\n– Remove Chromatic Aberration: enabled
\n– Constrain Crop: enabled, this resulted in a slight crop.<\/p>\n
\n– Distortion: 0
\n– Vertical: -20
\n– Horizontal: 0
\n– Rotate: 0.0
\n– Scale: 100
\n– Aspect: 0<\/p>\n
\n– Amount: 25
\n– Radius: 0.5
\n– Detail: 30
\n– Masking: 0<\/p>\n
\n– Post-Crop Vignetting was set to -5.
\n– Grain was left at 0.<\/p>\nIt’s in color, not black & white<\/h2>\n
\n– Red, Aqua and Blue were set to -100.<\/p>\n
\n– Blue was set to -40.<\/p>\n![\"favourite](\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Color-Settings-144x300.png\")
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\n(click to enlarge)<\/a>
\nCorrections in Color Saturation and Luminance, finally leading to a monochromatic near black & white image.<\/p>\n
\n– Temperature: 4950 K
\n– Tint: +11<\/p>\nWhat about the contrasts?<\/h2>\n
![\"favourite](\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Contrast-Settings-243x300.png\")
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\n(click to enlarge)<\/a>
\nTone Curve. I set the Lights to +25 and the Darks to -20, so a typical S-curve resulted.<\/p>\nAnd the scaffold?<\/h2>\n
![\"favourite](\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scaffold-Mask.png\")
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\nClarity was set to +25, and Sharpness was set to +30. That’s all.<\/p>\nThe final image<\/h2>\n
![\"favourite](\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0320928-4000.jpg\")
<\/a>The final image.<\/p>\nThank you for your comments!<\/h2>\n
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