Well, yes I know about who Pullman was. It's not just the layout of the
square. Looking at the original, it looks like a noise reduction
program was used on the image at high settings and then it was over
sharpened, (at least that's what it looks like from the halos around so
many objects), to combat the softness the noise reduction imposed on the
image. This resulted in a cartoonie artificial look. It's not a bad
image, in fact it's a very good image, just looks less like a photograph
than I think it should.
Glen wrote:
At 04:33 PM 8/11/2005, P. J. Alling wrote:
Nice, but it looks over processed, more like a table top model, say
for an HO gauge railroad layout, than a real place...
Hi PJ,
I assume that you know that "Pullman Square" refers to the railroad
industry? People in Huntington are very fond of railroad imagery and
themes. The design of many features of this town square are intended
to echo a railroad theme, so it's not too surprising that you found
some resemblance to a model railroad. ;-)
However, if you want to see real scale models of the area, click here:
http://www.cityofhuntington.com/Work_and_Do_Business/ps-model.asp
I hope you agree that my image looks far more realistic than scale
models. ;-)
Also, if you want to see the JPEG version of my original image
(caution: it's large), click here:
http://mclilith.audioshot.net/photos2005/Pullman.jpg
This version is pretty much unprocessed, except for conversion from
Pentax RAW format.
take care,
Glen
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