Category Archives: Photographs

Metropol

Another from the storefront series.

Metropol. G3, kit lens @43mm, 1/250, f/5.6, ISO 1600.

The original needed quite a bit of work, and there was no way of avoiding the utility pole at the time I pressed the button.

Original snap.

Content Aware Fill and the Clone Stamp tool, taken in several small bites, got rid of the lamppost and selective application of Curves lifted the dark interior. On Sutter Street in San Francisco.

Little Italy

A fine mural.

This gorgeous mural is in San Francisco’s Little Italy.

G1, kit lens @14mm, 1/1250, f/5. ISO 320.

The original, however, cannot be approached at the right angle. It’s high up, the traffic prohibits safe access and it was in shade the day I snapped it.

Here’s the original snap:

This is where the Photoshop technique I illustrated here for correcting verticals really shines.