This is not what I intended to shoot tonight at all. After riding my bike down to Newport Pier on the weekend. I seemed to spot some good comps to shoot by the pier. So after heading to Long Beach on Monday and not seeing anything inspiring to shoot I decided to head out again tonight (Wednesday) to Newport Beach and see what I could possibly catch.
It was a beautiful sunset, very clear night, small amount of wind. I shot around the pier and on the walk back to the car I like to scout around for other comps that might be intriguing. Always looking for a doorway, porch, something inspiring. I came across this pathway between houses that was very interestingly lit. I set my tripod on the wall that separated the home from the beach and snapped off a few.
With this kind of lighting I automatically think HDR. So all of my comps are bracketed for a clean HDR.
Here is the process I used to shoot this in HDR:
The Shot:
7 Exposure HDR- I needed to put this in Bulb to get a +3 Exposure and then bracketed down from there. This is a +3 to -3 Exposure. F/8, ISO 400, Cannon 24-105L @84mm. Exposure time 44 sec all the way down to .8 sec.
Post Processing:
-7 photos into Adobe Raw-Noise reduction only and saved as Tiffs
-Photomatix (Detail Enhancer) Painterly preset with slight adjustments saved as Tiff
Photoshop:
>Nik Color Efex 3.0
-Pro Contrast
-Tonal Contrast
-Bleach Bypass
>Topaz Adjust
-Slight increase in overall color
-Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat slight increase of Yellows
-Adjustment Layer-Curves slight increase in Contrast
-Vignette added
-Sharpened, sized and framed for posting
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