https://jason.bennee.com/blog Benz World Photography Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:07:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2016/11/capitolio-nacional/ https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2016/11/capitolio-nacional/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2016 09:45:54 +0000 http://jason.bennee.com/blog/?p=8619 This is Karen’s photo of the National Capitol Building in Havana. It was the seat of government in Cuba until after the 1959 revolution. As of 2013 restoration began in preparation for it to be once again used for the national assembly.]]> This is Karen’s photo of the National Capitol Building in Havana. It was the seat of government in Cuba until after the 1959 revolution. As of 2013 restoration began in preparation for it to be once again used for the national assembly.

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]]> https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2015/07/cuban-thaw/feed/ 0 https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2010/07/havana-cuba/ https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2010/07/havana-cuba/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:05:30 +0000 http://jason.bennee.com/wordpress/?p=1166 This was taken in Cuba. This building is typical of the design and condition of houses in Havana. I like this shot as despite being taken with an early digital compact camera EX-Z3 it had a natural HDR look about it even before I started work on it. To process this image I started be removing […]]]> This was taken in Cuba. This building is typical of the design and condition of houses in Havana. I like this shot as despite being taken with an early digital compact camera EX-Z3 it had a natural HDR look about it even before I started work on it. To process this image I started be removing the cables in front of the building with the Spot Healing Brush Tool set to Content-Aware. I then added Vignette, Viberence, Selective Desaturation and the Orton Effect. Then I gently lifted the pastel shades of the buildings using individual channel curves. I tried to submit this image for stock but it was rejected by Shutterstock and Dreamstime for copyright. I guess Art-Deco buildings count as Art.

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