Entry #7 in my sporadic series charting the progress of the Barangaroo South project.

Things have kicked up a notch since the last shot on 16 December.

In other news, one of the reasons that I did a morning shot rather than the more traditional lunchtime shot for this (this is the first of the shots to be backlit, which I'm still not sure about) is that we had a farewell lunch for one of my colleagues who was getting the bullet from Friday. The decision had been made, there would be no turning back. No, the business will just have to do all of the work that he used to do for them themselves. The decision will not be rescinded.

Until 14:50 on Friday afternoon when he was asked to stay another 5 weeks.

My place of work is organised and planned like no other on Earth.

Or any other planet that I've visited, lived on or merely passed through.

I mean that.

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Edit 31 Aug 2024, over 9 years into the future: I have no recollection of the incident described above, or who it was. I think it maybe, possibly, could have been a guy called Gerard, but I cannot swear to it. The last 15 years or so have just been a seemingly endless series of people getting the bullet, something which seems to be ramping up again with yet another revenue crisis.

In other news, this now looks a hell of a lot better than it did when I first posted it on PBase yea those many years past. At the time most of my Photoshop knowledge came from Deke McClelland who, at the time, advocated using Levels to adjust an image and only using Curves if Levels won't do it for you. Many years later I watched something by photographer Chris Orwig who said that quite a few photographers bypass Levels and go straight to Curves because it allows you to be more specific. What I also found is that it's just as easy to use as Levels once you get used to it, and indeed my current workflow has an action which adds a Curves layer with points for shadows, midtones and highlights already set. The end result is that the main tower no longer looks like it's being lit by a nuclear blast (which I suppose it is, since that's what the sun is after all), but some detail is actually visible. I had to use the most oddly shaped curve I've ever done to drop the highlights and bring up the shadows, but to my mind it worked.
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