LightningPaul

An evening shot of a part of the Palace of Science and Culture in Warsaw, Poland. I posted another shot of this building a while ago.


TECH-INFO: 7 JPG shots with each a stop difference, using a tripod. I used all shots except one because someone came out of the door at the moment. I'm fairly happy except I should have used a smaller aperture (eg f/8.0 or even f/11.0) to have sharper pillars. On the other hand it would have yielded longer exposure times which would have made the recording process more difficult because people were passing from time to time.

During post processing, like most of my HDR tone mapped images, I used DxO Optics Pro for lens corrections, Photoshop to convert them into a HDR file, Photomatrix Pro for tone mapping and Photoshop again for post-post-processing.
When I created the HDR file I straightened the lines. This is only possible with the (much more expensive) Extended version of Photoshop :-(   Mostly I did that after tone mapping but it's better to do that before.

EXTRA: here is a link to the image with the middle exposure which came straight from the camera. So before doing any lens corrections or straightening lines. For those who are interested, here is the version after tone-mapping and before final enhancements. These images will be removed in the near future. It gives you a change to see what is modified. Perhaps I should do this more often, what do you think?