Little abacus in the server room - a photo on Flickriver

            I made this picture for the Inria contest on "Computing: past, present, and future". The abacus is, to me, the birth of computing.

I borrowed a camera with a very fast lens, and went to the server room of our research center, where I played finding a spot for the abacus in the middle of the computing equipment. A large numerical aperture gave me a short depth of field, turning the lights in a nice bokeh.

I did fairly little post-processing, using darktable as always. I used a local contrast filter on the abacus itself, and pushed the colors in the top right of the photo toward green.

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Taken on: April 25, 2017

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computing

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Groups appears in: • FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) • -Spirit Of Photography more » • masters of light • Flickr Social • 64ISO « less

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