The Greening of the Chicago River - 2008 Edition

Today was St. Patrick's Day and as tradition dictates, the Chicago River was dyed green in the morning.

The tradition goes back to the 60s and is nicely summarized at the National Geographic's Intelligent Travel blog here.

BTW, I have been using the high pass filter (in Photoshop) for sharpening ... it's great a great tool and it renders your photograph to have a iittle bit of HDR look to it without using HDR.

Here are the steps (from many sources like luminouslancscape.com etc.):

1. Duplicate photo
2. Filter -> Other -> High Pass ->10 -> OK
3. Layers Palette (drop down menu) -> use any: overlay, soft light, hard light, vivid light -> change opacity (anywhere from 20-70 % depending on your taste, I usually use values ranging from 20-40%).
4. Flatten image.

This is how a part of my workflow for posting to flickr (and also for printing).

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Chicago / Cityfront Center (show map)

Taken on: March 15, 2008

Tags:

Chicago

St. Patrick's Day

green

Chicago River

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Nikkor

10.5mm f/2.8G Fisheye

Irish green

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Camera: Nikon D200, f/2.8, 1/640 sec, 10.5mm (=15mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D200
Lens:	10.5 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	10.5mm (35mm equivalent: 15mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Cloudy
Contrast:	High
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 7.1 (Macintosh)
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