The Store with much more

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all

What probably started life as the town's biggest department store, now has become the town's community centre. Library and other things. The town is Kurri Kurri north-west of Sydney by about 200km


exif- Panny FZ-2500; 1/100s x F2,8; ISO-125; lens at 1x zoom / 24mm FFequiv

As always, feedback welcome
Phil

[Isac]

Lovely wide image Phil, gives a good indication of the size and scale. I wonder if there's an Indian Restaurant in there too where you can get a good Curry Curry? I'd love to see what you saw in the shadows

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Hi Isac

Shadows - wot shadows? ...... I was looking at the amazingly complex? brickwork (ie- needs a craftsman rather than a qwik brikkie) and waited for 2 pedestrian strollers to exit left, and the cleaner in hi-viz vest to sort-of disappear behind a post or into a doorway - then wait a moment more for the vehicle to pissorf as it crossed my viewing spot before I went 'clik' rather than a mirrored 'ker-clunk'

Phil

[Isac]

Hi Phil. It's hard to describe how to do an edit to boost the shadows so I did a quick edit to show what I mean. I only did the shop fronts and cleaned up the surrounds a bit.

Also, when you want to photoograph a building or otherplace that has people moving through your frame, if you have your camera on a tripod, you can take a number of shots around 20-30 seconds apart and then stack them together using a filter called "Median" which removes any object not in the same place in all of the images, therefore leaving a clean image with the "tourists" removed. This is the way I do it in Photoshop and I don't know if Elements has this ability.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Thanks Isac - I know about shadows lift in Elements - that part's okay and I have done a 25% lift following your suggestion in #2 above (thanks)
As to a filter called 'median' - no it's not in my old v8 of Elements ... nor is it a Layer option either
Phil