I went wandering downtown Boston with a couple of participants involved
in one of Chrysta Rae's "photography scavenger hunts".
[No convenient link, it's some kind of google-plus thing.]
It was wikkid cold and windy, but we went and trudged around some
of downtown, the North End, and a bit of Southie looking for good
photogenic material.
I wasn't in it to materially participate in the Hunt; just to be a
brain extension of the others as needed. Along the way I took
a few shots of my own, including amusing ones with the participants
going after their various targets, but some to be artsy on my own.
Each shot is presented as the "original", simply reduced a bit, next to the "processed" version as I would personally treat it in post. Every small image links to its own larger full-detail version. The side-by-side layout should show the differences in cropping, brightness and color treatment, and any other basic parameters that might have been changed in the postprocessing pass. We didn't cover a whole lot of ground; for an example of a more extensively touristy "Boston blitz" by someone visiting, try this. Still, it had been a while since I went out to just to capture stuff with a camera; this was a fun way to spend an afternoon. I think we even got a bit of sunburn, or maybe it was wind burn... |
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One of my own pet themes: snow melt patterns, where snowbanks with southern exposure tend to form directional "fingers" around where various bits of dirt melt in driven by incident sunlight. I've gotten better ones before; compare to this one from a Maine roadtrip a few years back. |
Meta: crew shots
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Hunt participants considering the aesthetic merit of the lights around the Faneuil complex. Needed a bit of "de-harshing" as most full-sunlight shots do. |
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The "drip catcher" off the end of a wavy pavilion roof on the Greenway was of interest. |