“Saqqara Sentry” • Comments (7) • Tuesday April 26th, 2005
 
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There was still plenty of light in the day when I hit up Djoser's step pyramid after Giza. It was a very nice contrast: virtually nobody was there and I felt I could really take my time in looking around.

CameraKonica Minolta 7d
LensTamron SP 90mm f/2.8
Shutter / Aperture1/300s / f/11
ISO100

There are sentry with rifles all over the tourist spots. It is a little eerie to consider they are there protecting you from outside forces and not primarily to keep you from doing stupid things (as it generally is in the States and Europe.) All the same, I am a little skiddish to take pictures of people with rifles, but I really liked the way this guy was perched on his camel up on the hill.

To make this image B/W I applied Russell Brown's conversion technique with some additional channel masking and mixing to bring forth the parts of the image I thought were worth bringing forth. After I was satisfied with the contrast of things I overlayed a grain field to give it that look-at-me-I'm-artsy Tri-X look.

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