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I was driving into work yesterday morning and my iPod came on with "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn. It brought back the feelings of being there again, and I decided it was time to put up another Graceland shot.
It sort of breaks up all the photos with people in them. I guess I ought to intersperse an occasional scenic or flower or butterfly so you all don't get bored with my Memphis in May travelogue! I just have so many great shots from those 5 days...
This is where Elvis relaxed in front of the TV set(s). He read that President Johnson watched all three network news casts at the same time, so he decided that he should do that, too. Here are three vintage '70's color televisions in Elvis Presley's Rec Room, I would more appropriately call it a Media Room, except it also had a bright yellow bar at the entrance. I couldn't get it all in, though, and I had to stand there for at least 5 minutes waiting for other photographers to stop leaning into the field of view. No one else knew I was using 10mm, so they didn't realize I was looking at about 165 degrees.
This room was a God-awful yellow color with a mirrored ceiling and black fuzzy furniture. There was 2 inch yellow shag carpeting on the floor and a hifi system with his record collection - he had gospel, blues, jazz, pop, but none of his own. There were probably enough for everyone in the trophy room...
We really enjoyed this tour, even if there were signs on every flat surface stating "Do Not Touch" and the tour guides all yelled "No Flash - Turn Off Your Flash" constantly the whole time. Everyone got a headset. If you didn't want the headset and Sirius satellite player that played the narration of the tour, you had to wear a badge on a lanyard that said "No Listening Device". You had to have something around your neck, no matter what!
I wonder today what Elvis would have thought of the commercialization of his image, the advertising, the money that Graceland must bring in...
Shot in RAW with the Sigma super-wide, ISO 6400 - even though that bright yellow was so evident, and there were mirrors everywhere, the light was still quite low. The camera was fairly confused by this room - it had a hard time with the white balance. Thank goodness for DxO Pro, I removed a bunch of the lens distortion and applied the correct white balance (I think it was cool white fluorescent), then saved as a DNG to import into PS2 where I removed noise, sharpened and leveled the exposure some, built the frame, re-sized, unsharp masked and uploaded. There is still some noise evident, but you have to admit, the D300 really does well at the highest of ISOs!
Have a great Hump Day and Don't Be Cruel! |
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