The Dark and the Light

The Dark and the Light, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

Another shot from the Freeway Underpass. Yes, these colors are the actual colors from underneath the freeway. The pillars, the walls are all this colorful and really caught my eye.
As soon as I saw this you know it had to be shot. I decided to go with a 16:9 Crop just for something different.

The Shot:

>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2, ISO 100, F/8, Sigma 10-20mm @10mm, Tripod and Cable shutter release

Post Processing:

>ACR

>Removed All Sharpening, Added Noise Reduction, Removed Chromatic Abberration

>Saved as Tiffs

Photomatix:

>Detail Enhancer

>Strength 100%

>Color Saturation 81%

>Smoothing (High)

>Luminosity 0.0

>White Point 3.208

>Black Point .8659

>Microsmoothing 2.0 (Default)

>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff

Post Processing CS-5

>Masked in +2 Exposure for red pylons

>Topaz Adjust-Color and Detail Enhancement

>Topaz InFocus-Sharpening

>Color efex Pro 3.0

>Pro Contrast

>Glamor Glow (Lowered Opacity to taste) (Masked and used where needed)

>Bleach Bypass (Masked and used in areas where needed)

>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-Desaturation of cement

>Corrected lens distortion

>Vignette Added

>16:9 Cropping

>Sized and Framed for posting