Sidewalk Serenade

Sidewalk Serenade, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

LA on a Sunday morning is starting to become a habit. No matter what Saturday night brings I set the alarm for 4am. I have a real positive attitude that the morning will bring something of a shot that I will like and post. Worse case scenario I will scout around for future shots for future Sunday Mornings.
This one was a drive around and I found it outside of downtown. Just seemed like downtown wasn't bringing anything I liked so I can't tell you how I came upon this jewel of a sidewalk art but I did and took all of a nano second to pull over and shoot. Some of the shoots that I took came from the middle of the street and with traffic coming around corners I kept running in and out of the middle of the street in order not to get run over.

The Shot:

>Non-Standard 3 Shot HDR +1, 0, -1,  ISO 400, F/11, 24-105L @28mm, 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 100%

>Color Saturation 80%

>Smoothing (Very High)

>Luminosity 0.00

>White Point 1.115

>Black Point 4.365

>Microsmoothing 2.0 (Default)

>Microcontrast 5.0 

>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff

Post Processing CS-5

>Topaz Adjust-Color and Detail Enhancement

>Topaz InFocus-Sharpening Just the buildings

>Topaz Denoise-Sky only

>Color efex Pro 3.0

   >Pro Contrast

   >Tonal Contrast (Buildings only)

   >Glamour Glow (Street and Sidewalk)

   >Bleach Bypass (13% Opacity Street and Building)

>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-Reds-Desaturation of reds in curb and street

>Light Vignette applied

>High pass sharpening

>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting