Dancing in the Cell Block
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For some reason, when I spotted this person under the skylight near the entrance to this decrepit cell block, I thought, "It's Fred Astaire!" My camera was on the wrong settings but I had no time to adjust them and just barely enough time to snap it. The result: An almost black image.
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In Adobe Camera Raw, there's a vast amount of things you can do with sliders, and the more I did, the more I played, the more this picture grew on me. Then, in CS4, I applied several iterations of noise removal, a black and white conversion, a yellow overlay using OnOne Phototools, and some saturation adjustments...maybe some more.
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But there's something about "Fred Astaire" that I really like. Maybe it's just the thought of seeming to be dancing in the cell block.
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If anyone is in the Philadelphia area, Eastern State Penetentiary becomes a Haunted House for Halloween, and is tauted as the scariest one EVER!
Uploaded on September 27, 2009