I've not posted anything lately but I have been busy in learning mode. I sat in on a learning session at Images Alberta Camera Club on ©Photoshop and ©Lightroom work flow. These were lessons that I needed to become more proficient with my ©Photoshop Elements and ©Gimp photo processing tools.
Today's picture has bothered me since I shot it last year in Germany. I was using a Kodak ©EasyShare 5 Megapixel point and shoot digital camera but grossly underexposed the main image due to the light level in the sky. Early efforts to brighten the picture resulted in a totally washed out sky.
Today, I used the magnetic lasso tool in ©Photoshop to make a very clean selection of the sky above the sculpture, darken the sky to match the exposure of the rest of the image, then brighten the entire image to bring out the detail. The frame is also a tool from within ©Photoshop Elements. Overall, I am very pleased with the result and I achieved better color truism than I was able to achieve using HDR type tools to balance my shadows and highlights.
The foreground is the "Berlin Sculpture", a piece of work by the Matschinsky-Denninghoff's couple. Our guide on the 'hop on, hop off' tour said it was meant to represent the two Berlins, East and West, separated after the war but still struggling to unite. This is in the meridian of Tauentzien Strasse, a popular street full of shops and businesses. Centered within the links, is the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche. This church was extensively damaged by allied bombing in 1943. The church was saved from demolition in the early 1960's and was stabilized. It stands as a testament to the destructiveness of war and there is a memorial hall in the base of the west tower. Throughout Germany we often saw plaques and photos of city highlights before and after the damage of war.
were a variety of activities for the whole family as part of the ongoing 7 weeks of winter events under the banner of "Winterlight".
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