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Today we’ll step away from New York for a second and head back home to Pittsburgh. If you follow my blog regularly, you know that a few weeks back a couple friends (Theaterwiz and Pete Talke) came in town to do some shooting. We got up fairly early in the morning for most people’s standards and were out shooting by a little after five. One of the spots we wanted to hit was the North Shore of Pittsburgh in the morning, a place that I had previously been, but a great place to photograph again. When we originally got going, there was a steady rain, and it wasn’t looking too good to have a successful sunrise shoot, but the rain held off and the clouds ending being just as good of a backdrop for the city as the sunrise would have. This is a view of the Clemente Bridge and you can even see Pete down in front grabbing his brackets.
Every once in a while I process an HDR in Photomatix and don’t really need to do a whole lot of work on it. This is one of those. After I processed the 7 exposures, I added a very slight S Curve, a Pro Contrast filter at 30% and a Tonal Contrast filter at 25%. That’s it. No masking, no color adjustments, just all kinds of blue hour goodness.
Happy Wednesday everyone, thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
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Really colorful shot, Dave. The POV and the reflective water make this awesome. I’ve always enjoyed getting up and out super early. The blue hour seldom disappoints.
Nice work, man.
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This has it all Dave. Composition, light color and fantastic processing.
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I like the person standing by the river as they do a lot for putting just how vast this scene is. Nice work.
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Beautiful! As difficult as it is for me (I LOVE my sleep) there is something magical about waking up in the wee hours and capturing something beautiful. I want to see some timelapse work!!
Ahh, my comment didn’t post! Anyways the jist of it was, I love walking up early for photography and sex, thats about the only things I will open my eyes for
Nice photo buddy, lov the colors. I wish my D7000 would bracket more than 3 without all the fudging before/during/after the shot. Great work.
So sick dude. That light in the water is awesome!
Love that light and the scene! Makes me want to go there so bad…
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Great shot Dave. I love this and as usual your processing is awesome.
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Gotta love it when you’re able to pull off a shot that just falls together! Nicely done, Dave!
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Wonderfully warm blue hour image of the city. Looks great,
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This is just magical Dave. I Love how the light reflections appear translucent in the water. Wonderfully creative perspective.
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Great shot! Love the motion in the clouds!
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Totally lovin’ the light here Dave, great shot!
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Great shot Dave. The contrast if the sky and city is awesome.
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Beauty blue hour shot
This came out nice Dave, well done
that’s just rocking Dave!!
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