Albuquerque Shooting
Was in Albuquerque, N.M. yesterday for the NCAA Basketball Regional, and happened to be in my hotel room on the 15th floor when this occurred. :eek1
Hope these pics don't offend anyone...
Here's the link to the story in the Albuquerque News:
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_local/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19858_3650385,00.html
In the above picture, you can barely make out the deceased criminal in the parking lot on the lower right. I have close-ups that might not be appropriate for this forum. You can see them in my smugmug account (link below). Another pic...
http://revcoman.smugmug.com/gallery/452399
Hope these pics don't offend anyone...
Here's the link to the story in the Albuquerque News:
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_local/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19858_3650385,00.html
In the above picture, you can barely make out the deceased criminal in the parking lot on the lower right. I have close-ups that might not be appropriate for this forum. You can see them in my smugmug account (link below). Another pic...
http://revcoman.smugmug.com/gallery/452399
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Suggestion: do something about the color balance. I think the cast is coming from shooting in such low light but also from the street lights. I neutralized on the white of the police car here: http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/18243100-L.jpg and used essentially the same curves to get this:
I did this in LAB (natch) and here are the curves:
What's going on here? I just found some parts of the image that I knew had to be neutral. Then I used the mouse on the LAB curves to find out where they actually where. Finally I moved those points to the origin, effectly neutralizing them. Some other points were then required to keep the green side of the A curve and the blue side of the B curve in place. Because the original cast was so all prevasive, the effect is to desaturate a lot of the image, but I like that. It gives a better nighttime feel, IMHO. If we were actually there, we would not perceive it as yellow, but we also wouldn't perceive it as very except for the colored artificial light. It goes well with the grain, which I also like (tried neat image to remove it, but like it better with the grain, actually).sdf
If I could have been more prepared (yeah, right), I could have made these more professional-looking. As it was, I grabbed the 20D, flipped the ISO to 1600, and started clicking away...
That's why they make chocholate, vanilla, and strawberry, as they say.
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The gunman had pulled into my hotel, and under the awning of the circle drive at the front entrance. As I returned from the local bar/restaurant scene on foot, I had to walk past one officer having a verbal confrontation with the suspect while he was still in the car. The policeman with his hand on his holstered sidearm prompted me to hasten my pace and get into the hotel! The other policeman was still seated in a patrol car.
When I got up to my room, I decided to take a look outside, for the view was quite impressive. Looking down and to the right, I saw the gunman (now deceased) lying as you see him, already cuffed. About 10 feet away, one of the policeman was on the ground as well, but I could detect movement. Apparently, the other officer (who was shot in the jaw), must have returned to his patrol car for medical supplies. He returned and begin giving aid to the downed officer (received 2 GSW's; one to the leg and another to the neck). Within seconds, it seemed like the whole Albuquerque PD descended on the scene (about 30 patrol cars at one count) with ambulances, fire engines, and a helicopter to boot. I messed around with some low ISO shots which turned out to be unsalvageable due to the low shutterspeed required. After I got the ISO bumped up to 1600 and mounted the 70-200, I began taking some acceptable pics... by this time the ambulances had loaded up the 2 injured officers and whisked them away.
In the 30 seconds it took to take the elevator up to my room, the action had taken place... if I would have been a few steps later, I would have been right in the middle of a bad situation!