LBCC

LBCC, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a convention center located in Long Beach, California. It was built on the site of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium beginning in 1962.

I really enjoyed shooting this area in the early morning. This is an HDR photo. Comments and critiques are welcomed.

The Shot:

>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2,  ISO 400, F/8, 24-105L @45mm, Hand held.

Post Processing:

>ACR

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

>Saved as Tiffs

Photomatix:

>Detail Enhancer

>Strength 80%

>Color Saturation90%

>Smoothing (Medium)

>Luminosity -4.2

>White Point 6.997

>Black Point 0.753

>Microsmoothing 5.1 

>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

   >Tonal Contrast

   >Bleach Bypass (13% Opacity)

   >Glamor Glow  (65% Opacity)

>Adjustment Layer-Levels-White and Black points

>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-remove Yellows from sidewalk and white of building

>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-Increase blue in light poles

>Adjustment Layer-Curves-Improve contrast

>High pass sharpening

>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting