lime – photoblog of a fruit

Location:

Brisbane City, Riverside

The setup:

Walking from work to Southbank, I have walked by this a few times. I’m not sure what purpose this serves (though Google would probably know – Google knows everything). The way I see it, it’s only useful for people working in the Riverside Centre to get to the sushi shop without having to use an umbrella. Pretty though.

The camera & lens:

Camera: iPhone 4
Exposure: 1/15″ @ f/2.8, ISO 160

Post processing:

Lightroom – I used a strong contrast curve (lights +65, darks -35, shadows -65). This blew out some highlights, so I reigned them in with the recovery bar (100).

I wanted to put clarity up to 100 but when doing that on the whole image, it left the middle section looking unattractive (you can see the shadow there now, it was made much worse). My solution to this was two graduated filters that would set the side sails to high clarity, and taper off toward the middle. I could also have used an adjustment filter (for better precision), but this way was less effort.

What I don’t like and/or would have done differently:

I’m happy with this for what it is.

What this photo beat to be chosen:

I had intended to take a photo of Lui and Evelyn at a new part of Southbank, but I forgot to remind Lui to bring my camera (I can’t bring it myself as there is nowhere to leave it while I’m running.)

What do you think?

All constructive criticism is welcome! Please let me know what you think, and what you don’t like about the picture. Everything is on the table, including the setup, equipment used, and the post processing. Nothing is off-limits and I’m always eager to learn!

If you’d like to try your hand at editing this image, you can download the original sized image:

• JPEG format
• (No DNG available for this one, as it was taken on the iPhone

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