Pittsburgh Version 2.0

412 Burgh · Jan 27, 2013

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Pittsburgh Bridge by ZDiBeradin, on Flickr

Enjoy! HDR long exposure. Unfortunately there was a building dumping out a lot of smoke in front of the Highmark building that you can see.. As well as some other buildings dumping off some steam from their roof as well. Hope you like it.

o hey tyler · Jan 27, 2013

The snow, it is turquoise. I must ask, why?

austriker · Jan 27, 2013

Nice although it looks like the smoke/steam has ghosted in several spots. Which Im assuming is because of multiple exposures for the HDR? I think Id just prefer a long single exposure here..

ceeboy14 · Jan 27, 2013

o hey tyler said:
The snow, it is turquoise. I must ask, why?

I suspect there are a lot of blue dogs in Pittdburg...or someone is color blind....or, I don't know but he had the same issue in the first version posted.

This is how I would expect HDR to look. It's not overcooked, or garishly tone-mapped to death but somewhere, and I suspect at the very beginning, you didn't get your black and white points set correctly, thus altering the color balance from the word go. In some ways, I sorta, almost, kinda like the tourquoise snow as it adds a bit of surrealism to the scene. Unfortunately, the rest of the scene is as flat as a board.
I should be seeing great depth in the reflections on the walkway and far more saturated color than I am experiencing...though, if the intent is for that flat look, then you can't have the tourquoise snow. You have a conundrum, laddie, a problem, a dilemma, a quandry...hmmmmmmmmm.

Bitter Jeweler · Jan 27, 2013

Perhaps the turquoise snow is from the blue lights on the bridge?

The building with the arch has a stitch mismatch that is pretty glaring.

412 Burgh · Jan 27, 2013

The arch building has a double arch, in the front and the back. I actually did make that fault in post as I thought it wasn't very noticeable There were two huge black lighting posts in front of the building I removed. I took it into black and white as people were not fans of the colored version. Maybe this is better. However, I didn't go back to PS to fix my cloning mistake. I have yet to get the chance.

Pittsburgh by ZDiBeradin, on Flickr

EDIT:

Also here is a very small pano... it failed but what the heck all did these photos did

Bridge by ZDiBeradin, on Flickr

ceeboy14 · Jan 28, 2013

Is there anyway you could link the original raw files in a program such as Mediafire and let some of the more advanced PP folks on here have a go. I think the images you wanted are in there, I am just not convinced you know how to get to them. I am not sure I can either, but there are some pretty savvy folks on here in LR/CS who can.