Pic of the Day #582
tagged Central City Shopping Centre, chromatic aberration, noise reduction, sharpening, Sun, Surrey and Vancouver
Perhaps I will sound trite for saying this, but there are a lot of very interesting buildings in Vancouver.
This is, I think, the tower at the Central City Shopping Centre in Surrey, in the glow of the setting Sun. The design of the building is, to say the very least, eye-catching, and its all-glass exterior plays with the light in wonderful ways.
Edit-wise, this picture received the standard battery of adjustments — sharpening, the calibration/Punch preset, and a touch of noise reduction and chromatic aberration correction. Initially, I was tempted to try and give it a “diffusion print” look by bumping the Clarity setting down to -100, but instead went the opposite direction and boosted the Clarity to +100 (Punch, by default, sets Clarity to +50). And then, because the colour was better, I switched from the standard colour calibration settings to the “Vivid” settings that I rarely, but sometimes, make use of.
And I have to say, I like the results. The lines of the tower, especially, are very sharp, and the colours rich. And then there’s the tower itself, which I think is just fascinating to look at.






