The Lady

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Another picture from Philadelphia. I took this one on a cold, cloudy morning. There was just a little bit of sunlight and it was falling on this sculpture. In post editing I wanted to enhance the sunlight falling on the sculpture so I adjusted the color balance to focus on the reds and yellows while filtering out blues and greens. If you see closely you'll see the effect of the color balance shift in the sky(instead of being white it has a slight red-ish tint). I also adjusted the contrast to even out the sky behind since it only contained clouds. I like the play of light and shadow in this picture. Now that I think about it, I feel the picture would have looked even better if the background was white so that it blended with the page's white background.