Central Motion

After spending the day at the beach yesterday on HDR Exposed, today we go back to New York.  Right now I just have so many pictures in my backlog to get put up, I probably will be jumping around quite a bit in the next few weeks.  I supposed that keeps it interesting.

To go along with the iconic New York landmark theme from a few days ago, today’s image is from Grand Central Terminal.  When we were in the city back in December, we stopped here so I could get a shot, however it was from the other side of the room, right when you walk, and I wasn’t completely thrilled with how the people milling around inside turned out.  Since I didn’t have my tripod for my previous visit here, I ended up getting too much of the floor and not enough of the ceiling.  I think that I corrected most of the issues I had this go around though.  My favorite thing about this shot however is the girl peaking around the guy standing right in front of me.  I noticed her glancing up at me while I was taking the shot and I’m glad that she did so in a usable bracket.

A lot less involved in the processing here compared to my last image.  This is a nine shot HDR processed with Photomatix then shipped to Photoshop.  I tonemapped the +2 exposure to apply the mask to the entire lower part of the image, which was a long enough exposure to give me nice motion blur, but also short enough to make sure that some people were standing still.  After that I applied an S Curve to increase contrast and a 60% Tonal Contrast filter to the entire image.  Also threw on a touch of a cooling filter to tone down the reds a little bit.  Decreased saturation and increased vibrance a pinch and called it a day.

 Thanks for stopping by today everyone.  See you tomorrow.