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City Hall dome

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City hall dome
City Hall, San Francisco, California

Nikon D200, 12-24mm f/4G
DxO (color/exposure, optics, lighting, noise, sharpening) nik CEP (pro contrast) Aperture (crop, sharpen)
1/10 sec @ f/4, iso 400, 12mm (18mm)
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Mehnaz and Jafer Wedding.

The second camera that C— had booked bailed on her at the last minute so she called on a one-time favor for me. Luckily, she had me bring my camera along in order to get some shots for the gorgeous wedding DVD jewelboxes she does.

The photographers hired for the event had spent a lot of money and gotten special permits to light up the interior of City Hall. I felt almost criminal taking photographs. Justice will out though and I didn’t bring my tripod or panoramic gear.

Instead, with only a few frames left on my card (why bring my second card when I just needed three good photos?) I kneeled down in the middle of the hall, stabilized and shot to the sky. I figured I could get away with a 1/10 second M-Up handheld exposure so I set my ISO to 400.

Unfortunately the even photographer backed up into my frame at the last second—he was taking the obligatory wedding party shots.

You can see that the spotlights are a different color temperature than the internal lighting. I tried to preserve the warmth of the lighting here so I didn’t correct the color much when post-processing mostly reserving the contrast control to return the some of the nice shadows that DxO’s lighting engine smooshed out when recovering highlight detail.

I was not in the exact center of the place which caused some interesting tilt/shift effects when aligning the shot.

Bring a tripod. Align everything. I’ll have to remember this little experience if I ever decide on taking an architectural shot again.

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Taken on: August 6, 2006

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Camera: Nikon D200, f/4.0, 1/10 sec, 12mm (=18mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D200
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.1 sec (1/10)
Focal Length:	12mm (35mm equivalent: 18mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
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