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Diversity – Ellis Island, New York, USA

Ben Tucker Photography — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:58:06 +0000

Location: Immigration Museum – Ellis Island, New York, USA

Exposure details: 1/125 sec @ f/2.8 ISO400

Processing: Clarity and contrast adjustments in Adobe Lightroom, Black & White conversion using Nik Silver Efex Pro

Ellis Island was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the site of the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. It became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and since 1990, hosts a museum of immigration run by the National Park Service.

This shot was taken inside the Immigration Museum a display of Photographs of people who had sourced records of their ancestors who had immigrated. Captured on during my 2008 trip to New York City, I was flicking through deciding which ones to reprocess after almost 3 years and I spotted this one which had never seen the outside of lightroom. It didnt make the cut the first time round but with some black and white processing I quite like it. What do you think?

I’m hoping to post more photos from New York over the coming weeks.

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Playing Around With Adobe Lightroom

Ben Tucker Photography — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:09:43 +0000

For years I failed to investigate the possibilities of this program, foolishly assuming it to most likely be a slimmed down version of photoshop! Far from it Adobes Lightroom is a brilliant little program not only for processing images (including raw files) but also for cataloguing, tagging, and non destructive editing. I must admit I now use the program probably more than photoshop for my everyday tasks, however dont let me mislead you I still much prefer the standard camera raw processor bundled with photoshop. Perhaps because I am so accustomed to the setting and knowing how to achieve what i am looking for in my images.

I have built up quite a library of processing action on lightroom which can be applied to a variety of image types in a non destructive way, i.e. its simple to reverty back to the original image or export the edited selection.

In the following images you can see 4 completely different processing styles each bringing their own dynamic to the shot, which do you prefer?

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Portrait Shoot

Ben Tucker Photography — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:00:13 +0000

Quick shoot with Louise in the purple room, processed from Raw with Adobe Lightroom. All 4 images shot with the Canon 50mm f1.4 lens with 580EX MK I attached to the camera.

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