LightningPaul

It has been a while since I posted a night image. Though this one is more a kind of late in the afternoon picture. It was shot at 16h42 but in the Winter, a day before New Year Eve. This place is in the center of Warsaw, Poland, close to the Palace of Culture and Science. Personally I really adore urban night shots. They mostly look very fascinating.

UPDATED: submitted for VFXY theme Night.


TECH-INFO: 9 shots of each a stop difference. Of course I used a tripod because the longest exposure was 6 seconds. I choose an ISO400 because there was little time and people were passing in front of me, so I had to hurry up. An ISO100 (or 200) would have introduced less noise but then the exposure times would have been too long. Despites everything the noise is still within an acceptable range.
The shot pictures got lens corrections in DxO Optics Pro, then got merged into one HDR file using Photoshop and tone mapped in Photomatrix Pro which resulted in one TIFF file. Finally I used several masked adjustment layers in Photoshop to boost/enhance contrasts and colors of several parts of the image.

I tried to keep it pretty real while still having it very lively. Besides the bit (too) greenish looking buildings, which I only noticed after uploading the image, I think I succeeded pretty well. Feel free to share your thoughts.