Camelot

Camelot, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

This shot started out in Hollywood early in the morning. I drove around Hollywood at 0-Dark-30 didn't really see anything that caught my eye so I headed on up to The Observatory in Griffith Park. I arrived just before sunrise and walked out to the back side of the Observatory that over looks LA. I have seen many shots captured from all around this area so I hoped to capture something different. Had to work around a few things to get the shot, there was a big plastic trash can right in the middle of this scene, glad it wasn't nailed or bolted down so I moved it out of the way. There was a young couple just to the left of this mack'n away so I needed to compose around them as well with my date Canon.
During post processing the photo came around feeling more like someone in a castle looking over there kingdom...wala title.

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The Shot:

>Standard 6 Shot HDR +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3  ISO 400, F/14, 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 91%

>Color Saturation 89%

>Smoothing (Medium)

>Luminosity 6.00

>White Point 4.856

>Black Point 1.884

>Microsmoothing 2.0 (Default)

>Microcontrast 8.0 

>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff

Post Processing CS-5

>Masked in -1 EV to remove halos in sky from Photomatix.

>Topaz Adjust-Color and Detail Enhancement

>Topaz InFocus-Global Sharpening

>Topaz Denoise-Sky only

>Color efex Pro 3.0

   >Pro Contrast (Lowered Opacity 58%)

   >Tonal Contrast (Everything but sky)

  >Duplex-Lowered opacity and only applied to wall and walkway

>Cloning to remove dust and spots

>High pass sharpening

>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting