The exterior of GUM Mall on Red Square during a light rain. Behind me was Lenin's tomb, and to my right was the famous St Basil's Cathedral (as many non-Russians would recognize as the Tetris building...)
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Technique: 5 exposure HDR (-2,1,matrix metering,1,2). There were many people walking around, so I took the extra step of multiple shots at each exposure. All shots of a given exposure were exported from Lightroom and stacked into a smart layer in Photoshop CS3 (via script) with blending mode set to "median" (the standard trick to get rid of people and such via Photoshop). HDR tonemapped in Photomatix. I couldn't get the right blending, so I processed it three times (with different levels of light blending), then layered these in Photoshop and used gradient / painted layer masks to blend the layers to create the effect I wanted. A vignette was added in Adobe Lightroom, and blue color was boosted just a little to give the sky more effect. Slight sharpening and clarity added as well.
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davic 49 months ago | reply
Fantastic!
ktania 49 months ago | reply
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Menetnashté 49 months ago | reply
fantastic!
Emre Otlu (Street Photography) 49 months ago | reply
Thank you so much for your HDR technique info. I'm going to visit moscow in 1 week. I'm deciding to take multiple shots as you are describing. I didn't know how to deal with the people around before. It's just a fantastic shot of the GUM shopping mall. Thank you again for sharing that great photo with the public.
Emre Otlu
le-spikey 49 months ago | reply
Wonderful reflections, the wet pavement has seriously spruced up this shot!
BadMonkeh 46 months ago | reply
Awesome shot, i love the reflections in the wet stones
miles09keefe 45 months ago | reply
I just got back from Moscow, and I chose to not take my Canon 40D, and I was angry the whole trip.. next time I guess.
Did you go in to see Lenin, that's some weird stuff man.
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my_tainted_love 44 months ago | reply
beautiful!
Snah51 ;-D200/P7700 43 months ago | reply
What a great image! I think it will takes me still a long time to get this far as you are with photoshop to create these wonderful images.
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cevatzade / www.cevatzade.com [deleted] 42 months ago | reply
wonderful photo.................................
wonderful light..................................
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Lucio Vero 40 months ago | reply
Fantástica foto.
afiskandar 39 months ago | reply
awesomeness!!
DeSouzaLima 36 months ago | reply
Congrats!!!
Julio G.González 33 months ago | reply
Beautiful photo!
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botavara_50 33 months ago | reply
Beautiful photo!
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chiacecco 23 months ago | reply
wonderful
Greg Adams Photography 10 months ago | reply
Outstanding!