Power Plant Glow by Ric Rosow
Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 2:34PMSubmitted by Ric Rosow
Power Plant Glow
On January 14th I set up to take photographs of the St. Anthony Main side of the Mississippi River, including focusing on the Stone Arch Bridge, the St. Anthony Falls and the University Power Plant. The Power Plant photographs were taken several hours after sundown. The bright lights of St. Anthony Main made the landscape very interesting. It was, however, challenging to edit the photograph so that the very bright points of light did not distract from or overwhelm the remainder of the image. The camera can apply only one exposure to an image. But some areas, such as where there are bright lights, should be exposed differently from the rest of the photograph. I can do that by taking multiple images with different exposures, or in post-processing by selectively lowering the exposure of some areas by using luminosity masks before I adjust the exposure. It was the second method that I chose for this photograph.
Power Plant Glow, Painted
The second photograph (above) is the same image as the first, but with additional processing to give it a painterly look. Photoshop’s AI technology was used in part to create this look for the image. I wrote out commands to Photoshop as to what I wanted and kept changing the command until I got what I wanted. This was an editing process I learned in the 5th Annual Photoshop Summit in October of last year. The instructor used the same process on a photograph he took. He liked it so much he printed it and displays it in his photography office. I’ll be interested to see how my image looks when printed on canvas.
You can see more of my work @ricrosowphotography.com and @PriceKrishnanGallery. This photograph and others on my website are available for purchase either from my website or by contacting me directly.
