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My charming spouse at Balzac's café in the Distillery District, Toronto. View larger on black.
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Again, my own brand of SOOC: Straight Out of CountlessHoursOfPostProcessing.

Notes for photogeeks: A fine example of how NOT to shoot a portrait: with dim lighting inside & bright outside, using no flash, at ISO800, with hand-held bracketed exposures of 1/10, 1/40 and a slower blurrier useless one. I "missed" the exposure, because the slowest was too bright for inside, and the dimmest was too bright for outside.

What you see is mainly the 1/10 exposure inside and the 1/40 outside, with different contrast/colour treatment on outdoors, indoor scene, face and lips. From raw I was able to recover the detail you see outside; that isn't snow, but blown out areas. Other pp included a slight crop, cloning out some distractions, and lightening the eyes a bit with a screen layer. I ended up with about 26 layers.

It helps to have a beautiful subject in a great setting, but maybe I should occasionally try shooting properly in the first place. :-)

Taken in: Canada / Ontario / Toronto / The Distillery District (show map)

Taken on: October 12, 2009

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Camera: Canon EOS 40D, f/3.5, 1/10 sec, 35mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 40D
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.1 sec (1/10)
Focal Length:	35mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	GIMP 2.6.6
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