Late Night Highway Color (C&C Please)

[kdthomas]

I posted another one like this in the BW forum but decided to monkey with some post processing in LR. I wanted to bring out the blue, and get a more-than-real effect.

This was ISO 6400 85mm 1.8 1/10 sec. I lost the specific settings but I think I pushed the blue & cyan hues fairly hard, and bumped the saturation and vibrance, contrast and clarity a tad. Sorry that I can't be more specific, I made a copy of a copy, and lost the specific setting values.

 

[Fred Berg]

I think you have been fairly successful given what you set out to do, however, I prefer the B&W shot.

The B&W shot has more of a surreal feeling and immediately I thought of Close Encounters.

 

[hamlet]

I like the idea, but the framing is a bit off for me.

 

[kdthomas]

I like the idea, but the framing is a bit off for me.

What might you change?

 

[hamlet]

This is just how i see this, i'd either turn the camera to the left so most of the right side isn't in view any more or i'd just remove the whole right side in photoshop with the mask tool.

 

[sana5500]

Where it is located?

 

[kdthomas]

Mississippi, just outside of Chunky (that's a real town)