Not much time to work on the project this week, but I did get a crash course in photoshop levels and color balancing from Channing Johnson, our excellent wedding photographer. I've been waiting to post my motel photos until I had a chance to do some adjustments for color and contrast, and maybe some cropping. And it seems that I learned in grad school how to paste someone else's head on my face and how to create an amateurish photo montage of an imaginary streetscape, but I didn't actually learn how to make regular photos look better. But thanks to Channing, I can know do some basic balancing for web images. See below, an image of my video project at the MIT Wolk Gallery:
That was after some retouching. Below is the original:
Maybe it doesn't look better on your monitor, but it does on mine.
Thanks, Channing!