Step Into The Light

Step Into The Light, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

Went out and shot on Sunday morning with Neil Armstrong2 the weather was just hazed in so the outside shooting wasn't very lucrative. So we scouted some future locations when we came across this underground area that led up to a platform on the freeway for mass transit. The colors where real eye catching.
I am happy with the way this turned out with the dual tones. After my processing and getting it all dialed in i did take the edge off of and lowered the saturation. The highly saturated stairs and pylons just didn't belong.
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The Shot:
>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2, ISO 100, F/9, Sigma 10-20mm @16mm, 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 91%
>Smoothing (Medium)
>Luminosity 0.0
>White Point 2.457
>Black Point 1.429
>Microsmoothing 2.0 (Default)
>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff


Post Processing:
>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
>Adjustment Layer-Curves-Enhanced Green and Red tiles
>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-Partial Desaturation of Green and Red tiles
>Cropped image
>Sized and Framed for posting