My DC Insider and photowalk alumnus, Ina, dropped me a note to pass on some pretty cool information on an upcoming event in the Washington DC area. For 3 nights from May 9-11, the Washington National Cathedral is sponsoring the Light to Unite program. Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter will make his U.S. debut by illuminating the National Cathedral with a vivid light display that will will be viewable from all around the city. The south side of the cathedral will be illuminated by vivid illustrations while the west side will be covered in photo-projections illustrating the unity of humankind. Gerry Hofstetter has transformed buildings, monuments, and natural beauty spots into contemporary works of art. He has illuminated famous landmarks such as Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid at Giza. Also among his extraordinary works are natural settings such as the Matterhorn in his native Switzerland, the White Cliffs of Dover along the English Channel, and gigantic icebergs in Antarctica.
The illumination will take place from sunset to Midnight on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There will also be a live musical performance beginning at 7 PM on Saturday. I’m sure this will be an incredible spectacle so if you are going to be in the area, make sure you put it on your calendar. To get more information, check out the National Cathedral web site and to see some of Gerry Hofstetter’s previous works, check out his site by clicking here.
Alternative Processing -
I’m not one of those Dave Hill image reconstructionists or anything like that (although I really do like his work) but I was shooting some skateboarding this past weekend and decided to apply a little Dave Hillian look by using the LucisArt plug-in to one shot in particular, just because I thought it would look pretty cool.
The image was shot with a D3 and a 17-35mm f/2.8 lens at 17mm. It was getting a little late in the day so I had to crank the ISO up to 3200 so that I could shoot at f/11 and still get 1/320 of a sec. shutter speed to freeze some of the action. The image was imported to Lightroom 2.0 where I made general corrections to the exposure. I then imported it to Photoshop where I applied the LucisArt filter. I then hit it with a little Nik Dfine 2.0 to clean up a little noise and then applied some skin softening by adding a blurred layer and then painting the softness in on a mask. The resulting image can be seen below.
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very nice effect!