ONE PHOTO EDITED

Taken with my iPhone: Musselburgh

When I found myself without my Nikon on a walk along the straight path beside the mouth of the Firth of Forth I reverted to my old iPhone.  The surprising result of the panoramic take of the river was the illusion that the wall took on an acute angle. I hadn't thought of this happening.  

From the original photo, I edited on Lightroom according to suggestions made on the tutorial Creating a Dramatic, High Contrast Black and White Image.

I cropped the right and left sides slightly to centre the view and cut out the people in the distance.  The following editing controls were used:

• The colour photo was changed to black and white.
• Contrast was raised 15 points.
• Highlights were raised to emphasis the contrast as much as possible to a point just before the bright areas were lost in detail.
• The same was done with the whites.
• Shadows were darkened.
• Blacks were dropped to further darken the shadows and stopped just before losing too much detail.
• In luminescence, oranges were raised slightly to brighten the tones.  
• Yellows were raised, greens were dropped to bring back detail and blues were dropped to darken the sky.
• Texture was increased slightly.
• Clarity was bumped up.
• Vignette was used to focus the middle area.

4.15 mm.

1/2500 sec. @ f/22.  ISO 32

5.3 MB

The only difference on the black and white take was that I reduced the size to 643.7 KB.