Weekly Photo Contest - Dec 3 - Dec 10 - The Fibonacci Spiral

Thank you Schtumple for all the good feedback!

jabbott said:

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Stairs in Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego, California
1/30s, f/3.5, ISO 1600, 10mm
Canon EOS Rebel T2i + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Sorry -- did not see that the competition was closed until after posting.

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This is a wonderful shot that you took of the stairs, but one question I have is how in the world did you get this picture without any tourists in the photo? I have rarely seen this stairwell empty. Thanks for sharing.

thylightguy said:

This is a wonderful shot that you took of the stairs, but one question I have is how in the world did you get this picture without any tourists in the photo? I have rarely seen this stairwell empty. Thanks for sharing.

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Glad you like the stairwell photo. I was there around the time they were closing, and even then I had to wait a couple minutes to get the shot.

Just for grins, I decided to re-process the photo using Lightroom 4 and here is the before and after:

With Aperture 3 (prior to v3.3) using highlight recovery and Neat Image:


With Lightroom 4 using highlight recovery and noise reduction - note the retained detail near the bottom of the stairs. I checked and Aperture 3.3.2's updated highlight recovery performs similarly in retaining detail.