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I hope you all had a great New Years and have enjoyed your festive season.

I wasn't able to sleep in as planned this morning so I decided to manipulate some images I hadn't yet edited from a late April photoshoot.  The original of this shot had the lantern lit up both from the inside and lit from the studio flashes and the concept I wanted it to show was that the light was from only the lantern so this received a liberal dose of dodge and burn and some colouration to match the red coloured glass windows.  Next stage will be to run this through a filter in incremental stages to give it the appearance of an oil painting. :)
























Image details as shot:

DateTime Original:	2007:04:28 17:34:54
Exposure Bias:	-0.33333333333333 EV
Exposure Mode:	1
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Time:	1/100 sec
FNumber:	f 7.1
File Source:	Digital Still Camera
Flash:	Flash, Auto-Mode, Return light not detected
Focal length:	30 mm
ISO:	200
Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Max Aperture:	f 1.4
Metering Mode:	Spot
Model:	NIKON D70
IPTC Copyright:	Mark Greenmantle
IPTC Keywords:	Medieval Fashion