LightningPaul

In the center of gallery La Fayette, a big shopping mall in Paris, you have this beautiful dome when you look up. It's an incredible place to visit.


TECH-INFO: for this I should have used my 10mm fish eye lens which I unfortunately left at home. It was impossible to cover it fully. I shot 3 RAW files with a stop difference, all hand held. From those files I developed 6 JPGs in DxO Optics Pro. Photoshop merged them into a 32-bit HDR file. This program has very good alignment algorithms. The HDR file got tone mapped in Photomatrix. Afterwards I used two masked curves layers in Photoshop. One to brighten the glass in the center and another one to darken the part around the glass. The last stop was needed to let it look more natural though it's still very colorful.