Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/250 sec @ f/10, ISO 200, 18 mm (EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS)  My fiancée and I are continuing preparations for our Thanksgiving celebration with our families.  We will be hosing a total of twelve people in our townhouse.  Today we spent some time hanging things on the walls in the dining room.  We bought these shadow bulletin board boxes and clocks a few weeks back and never got around to hanging them.  Today we did.  I wanted to take a picture to show off our handy work.  We hope to one day be able to fill all three shadow box frames with pictures from each of the three cities found on the clocks: New York, London, and Paris.  We have New York covered already, but we need to plan our trips to London and Paris.

I did significantly more post processing to this image than I normally do to my Photo365 photographs.  After increasing the exposure with both the Exposure and Fill Light sliders in Lightroom, I sharpened the image to bring back the details in the clock faces.  These tweaks resulted in a noisy image, so I brought the picture into Photoshop CS4 and removed most of the noise using Noise Ninja.  The last step was to remove an electrical outlet which was partially blocked by the chair in the lower right section of the picture.  To do this, I first selected the chair which was cutting through the outlet.  I then inverted the select so that everything but the chair was selected.  This allowed me to use the Clone Stamp tool without having to worry about disturbing the chair.