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UMMA - New Wing by jhoweaa

UMMA - New Wing

This shot shows a portion of the new wing of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The shot was taken late in the day and I debated about whether I should stick with color, or go to black and white. In the end, I decided I liked the black and white better. I think the thing I liked the most was how the sky reflection almost creates an appearance of a hole in the side of the building.

There were several steps in the processing which I'll probably detail on my imagenotebook.jameshowephotography.com blog later this week. Basically the processing involved some perspective control, a couple of curves layer to control contrast, a couple of black & white layers to control the conversion and the Topaz Adjust filter to bring out more detail.

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Uploaded on Nov 15, 2009  |  Map

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Guggenheim Museum - NYC (Alternate angle) by jhoweaa

Guggenheim Museum - NYC (Alternate angle)

Several days ago I posted this shot of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York City. The original image was actually part of a pano that I was thinking of creating but decided not to. When I was reviewing my shots from New York, I noticed this other angle that I had taken of the museum. I decided that I liked this angle better so I processed it the same way as the other.

The basic processing involved blacking out the sky (in the process removing a couple bits of other buildings which were in the shot). I increased the contrast to make the shadow areas of the museum go black. The sky that day was a dreary grey so nothing was really lost by eliminating the sky and I think this treatment emphasizes the best parts of the museum, the circular ramp and the typography.

I'd be curious to know which version this one, or the other one you prefer.

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Uploaded on Nov 12, 2009  |  Map

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Lamp by jhoweaa

Lamp

On a recent trip to New York my wife and I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the exhibits at the museum featured modern design. I don't remember who designed this lamp but I was captivated by its design. Unfortunately I didn't write down the name of the designer. I'm a big fan of strong lines and this lamp has them in abundance. I particularly like the shadows that the lamp casts.

This image was converted to black & white from a color digital image. I used the Clarity setting in Topaz Adjust to increase edge contrast. In the process, the filter increased the noise in the image. However the noise looks more like film grain and I think it adds a bit more feeling to the image.

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Uploaded on Nov 11, 2009

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UMMA - Old Wing (Take 2) by jhoweaa

UMMA - Old Wing (Take 2)

Back in May I posted this shot of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). It was a morning HDR shot where the sun was positioned up and to the right, somewhat behind the building. Yesterday was a beautiful November day and I was walking around campus late in the afternoon. The sun was behind me and low in the sky and was creating some nice warm light. I took this shot as one of a series of 5 that I was going to turn into an HDR.

After looking at the HDR version, I decided to take one of the middle images and work with it instead. I used Topaz Adjust to bring out some additional color and contrast. I adjusted the color a bit to remove a slight color cast, but that was about it for the processing.

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Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009  |  Map

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Biomedical Science Research Building - HDR by jhoweaa

Biomedical Science Research Building - HDR

It was a beautiful November day so I took the opportunity to wander around the campus of the University of Michigan looking for pictures to take. It was getting late in the day and I liked the combination of light and cloud shape, so I decided to take an HDR of the Biomedical Science Research Building.

The image was created from 5 exposures processed into an HDR using Photomatix. If I were to spend more time with it, I would probably clone out some of the signs and trees at the bottom of the image.

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Uploaded on Nov 8, 2009  |  Map

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