Here’s another one, prob­ably one of my weird­est pho­tos, mood-​wise. I took it on cam­pus, some winter morn­ing when there was that proper Irish Fog in the air.

Clearly, the photo is heav­ily post-​processed, but only in a global way — so no local manip­u­la­tions, just muck­ing around with bright­ness, con­trast and tone curve. I have to admit that I didn’t “see” the pic­ture like that when I pressed the shut­ter release. The ori­ginal image itself is fairly “bor­ing” due to all the fog and low con­trast, or let’s say “straight for­ward”. But it was really through play­ing with pretty much all the sliders in Light­Room 1.3 at the time that the pic­ture came out that way.

The big white disk (which many people think is the moon, but it is actu­ally the sun) came from con­trolled blow­ing out of the high­lights. In the ori­ginal image the blown out area is just a few dozen pixels wide, as I inten­tion­ally under­ex­posed the pic­ture when I took it, not to loose any inform­a­tion. But then pump­ing up those high­lights again made the sun trans­form almost into a super­nova which adds this extra bit of weird­ness to the image.

I might come back to that pic­ture one day and fiddle with it a bit more. Prob­ably remove those posts in the fore­ground, and maybe the lamp. I’d prob­ably brighten the pic­ture up a bit too, but I’ll leave it as it is for the time being :-)

PS: I pos­ted the Light­Room set­tings for this pic­ture here, if you’re interested.