My daughter caught these images this week, and I took the liberty of messing with them a bit........
Just as with my winding hilly road a couple of days ago -- a little contrast, a few filters.....
I like these. Atmospheric...........
The camera loves the flags around the bottom of the Washington monument, and I like the tree balancing the dome of the capitol building.....
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and in the fog, no less! I like the flags too. Glad you like 'em (pictures i mean. I can't tell if you liked the flags or no). The images surely do show up better now. It's interesting, the way you lit up the tree, it looks mostly blue now. That is how it looked from all the way down the mall too, then slowly one could discern red lights, then white (wow, a patriotic tree?) and then green and yellow (oh just regular christmas lights). I wonder why only blue is visible from a distance. perhaps they should rethink those red lights on the tops of tall buildings.
I thought it looked foggy! And I do like the flags. I guess when I said the camera liked them what I meant was that *I* like what the camera does with them.....
I increased the contrast, to lessen the effect of the glow in the air from the lights. On the monument I used the watercolor filter, and that was about it. (I find that when pics are not sharp making them a bit more abstract helps...) Oh -- I did lower the red lights at the top of the monument. :-) They looked sort of like looming alien eyes, and I thought that distracted. They showed up a lot more, before I deliberately took them down several notches.
On the capitol, the lights on the tree were more "pin-prick" looking, rather than the more smooth, blobby look of the lights on the building, so I set about to try to make the tree lights more blobby. I used the "paint daubs" filter, then the watercolor filter, then went back and did "paint daubs" just on the tree, and in the process, as you note, some colors disappeared.
It is very interesting to hear about what you could see from where! I would not have predicted that the blue would show up first! I could see the white showing up first, but the blue and then the red?? Interesting. And then interesting that the yellow and green were last (and have been lost from this image)!
I'm sure that if I knew more about physics and camera-chip design, there would be an explanation.....
I think it is way cool to be able to ramp up pics in the post-processing!!! :-)
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