Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture of some sort of architecture in black and white and to share the photoshop settings for the translation with the group. This shot was immediately what sprang to mind when I read the assignment. Its a steel plant on the way to one of the cities I wrestle in. I took the shot on the way home so that it would be darker and the lights would be on. I used a fairly long exposure and a higher ISO to get a lot of exposure detail.
In photoshop I used a channel mixer adjustment layer to set it to black and white with the following settings:
Red: +20%, Green: +35%, Blue: +75%
Then I added a levels adjustment layer with these settings:
input Black: 15, input Mid: 1.0, input White: 240
output Black: 0, output White: 255
Wow, I like it. is that the moon coming up on the left?
where do you see a moon? leave a note.
oh. duh. I liked it better when it was the moon.
Who knew a steel plant could look so pretty?
to be fair, I guess it could be a power plant, but i’m 99.99% sure its steel.
Nice. Is this the one that the highway passes under, south of E. Liverpool?
pollution can look pretty sometimes
Mav, this is fantastic!
Thank you, every everyone.
@_michal_ : No, I’m pretty sure that much farther North. Assuming East Liverpool is where I think it is, then this 45 minutes away.
I fell asleep in the car once when Clarence was driving. I woke up to the sight of the steel mills in Braddock belching smoke and fire into a dark red sky. I thought we’d driven into Hell.
Very compelling. I find my eyes wandering about the picture, taking in all the details.
Great B/W. I grew up in Martins Ferry in the 1950s and 1960s.
@don_iannone: thank you. it really is a pretty site in the evening.
Wow! This is impeccable.
I never knew anyone could make this place seem beautiful.
You’ve done it perfectly.
@kathrynrehberg: Thank you. Glad you like it.
Is this Wheeling, Weirton, Mingo Junction? Or, where the Deer Hunter was filmed?