LAFD Building

LAFD Building, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

The way the mornings have been lately I didn't know if the 4am wake up would produce a clear morning or not. Needless to say, it did. So out of the last few visits to LA in the morning this is one of my favorite views. Facing south is the building, facing north is Disney concert hall, and West is the city. I got to tell you it is great getting up so early and seeing the sunrise over the city.

The Shot:

>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2,  ISO 200, F/8, 24-105L @67mm, Tripod and Cable shutter release.

Post Processing:

>ACR

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

>Saved as Tiffs

Photomatix:

>Detail Enhancer

>Strength 92%

>Color Saturation 85%

>Smoothing (Very High)

>Luminosity 0.0

>White Point 2.090

>Black Point 1.055

>Microsmoothing 2.0 

>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff

Post Processing CS-5

>Topaz Adjust-Color and Detail Enhancement

>Topaz InFocus-Sharpening

>Color efex Pro 3.0

   >Pro Contrast

   >Glamor Glow (Masked and used for Parking lot, trees and small amount on building)

>Adjustment Layer-Levels-White and Black points

>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-Decrease reds in building

>Adjustment Layer-Curves-Filters-Blue Filter for sky

>High pass sharpening

>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting