My apologies for the late posting today. It's been a wild week. I've only slept 7 hours out of the past 96. I'm prepping to go on another vacation (destination: Japan with my brother, Mt. Fuji here we come!), and it has been crazy trying to tie up all the loose ends before I leave town.

This photograph is a fine example of the quality of carving to be seen at Agra fort. In many ways, I appreciated the fort more than the Taj Mahal...although I am not sure it is fair or possible to compare the two in any meaningful way.

Looking back upon the metering values for this shot, I probably could have turned down the ISO by at least two stops; but I am pleased well enough with how this shot turned out: grainy off the camera or not.

Having that hard light stare directly into my 15mm ultra-wide created a bright spot caused by internal reflections to appear to the upper right of doorway. I used the color replacement tool to knock that down and the standard double HSL-adjustment layer technique to convert the image to a monochromatic one. Final touches were accentuating the grain with my favorite scanned T-Max grain field and a levels adjustment.