Friday, September 16, 2011

The City Below

I worked on this last night and then re-cropped it before posting this morning. Posted it and ran out of the house to work before running up a description.

2 Weeks ago up at the Griffith park Observatory this was my first shot of the morning before the sun came up. Obviously a tripod was needed to get this exposure but later found out that tripods were not allowed. Anyway I guess what they don't see is a good thing.
This is such a great place to shoot from and I look forward to going back which may be this weekend depending on what Sunday Morning brings. I will start out in LA and move from there.


The Shot:
Single Exposure-F/14, ISO 400,  3.2 seconds, -1 EV, Tripod Mounted with cable release, 1ds Mark II, 24-105L @35mm

Post Processing:
>Raw-Fill light, Vibrance Slider, opened in CS5 as 16bit tiff

CS-5:
>Masked in HDR photo for Observatory brightness and fill in shadows
>Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0
  >Pro Contrast-remove color cast in sky cityscape
  >Tonal Contrast-masked and used for clouds, city and Observatory
>Adjustment Layer Hue/Sat-Global saturation and then masked just for city lights
>Free Transform tool-Stretch photo for better cropping
>Cropped photo for better composition
>High pass sharpening
>Framed and Sized for posting

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