No going back

No going back, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

Getting up early and running out to LA has some really nice advantages. One is as you can see...empty streets. Park where you like, walk out in the middle of the street and snap off some comps. Try to do this Monday thru Friday...not going to happen!
I have been leaning towards over saturated photo's lately with my HDR's. (Just see my last post and you will see what I mean) This one I decided to go with some desaturation and filtration to come up with a different look.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

The Shot:

>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2,  ISO 250, F/8, 24-105L @24mm, 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 80%

>Color Saturation 80%

>Smoothing (Very High)

>Luminosity 0.0

>White Point 4.856

>Black Point 0.865

>Microsmoothing 10.0 

>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

   >Duplex (Opacity Lowered to taste)

>Vignette Added

>High pass sharpening

>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting