Statuesque

Since we’ve been hanging around the same area all week here at HDR Exposed, I figured, why change it up now?  I’m posted shots of the Cowboys Stadium and some of the sculptures in the neighboring park, so today I thought I would combine them together.  Also featured in today’s post is Cliff Baise, a great photog who I had the pleasure of shooting with on Sunday.  Like I said yesterday, I didn’t have my tripod, so the majority of my shots from the trip were handheld.  Handheld HDR + night time = higher.  Just one more reason to love the D700, the noise control is just awesome.

These are both five shot HDRs processed with Photomatix andCS5.  I applied S curves to both shots as well as a little bit of masking on Cliff (to remove the motion blur) and the pillars (to recover some highlights) before loading them into onOne.  Both were subjected to the Dreamland, Tonal Contrast, Dark Contrast and Grunge filters at varying levels before finishing them off with Dfine from Nik Software to get rid of a teeny bit of noise.

Thanks for hanging out in Arlington with me this week.  Next week we’ll venture to some other parts of Texas.  I hope that you all have a great weekend.