Chicago by night...

[another Marcus]

Hi everybody,

Unfortuately I missed the start of porject 52. However, hope to have some more time for shooting in future. At a business trip I took the chance for making some pictures in Chicago. I was the light which motivated me to make thge picture - hope I got it well

Nearly no post-prcessing (noise reduction and sharpening).
C&C always welcome.

Cheers,

Marcus


EXIF: D90, 16-85mm @ 26mm, ISO 800, 1/40s, f/5.6

[JohnnyG]

I love that building in Chicago (Sears tower?). In my edit, I isolated the buildings from the sky and tower and worked in CS5 to remove most of the yellow-orange from the tungsten lighting. Inverting that layer, I boosted the clarity in the sky and building to give a bit more contrast to the image.



I will give you a full edit breakdown if you are using ACR and CS5.

[Bobobird]

Reminds me of the French Connection.

Nice shot.

[another Marcus]

Hi Jonny,

thanks for post-processing - like it very much! Did you reduce the yellow-orange light using selective color correction?

The bulding in the picture not the Sears Tower. The Sears Tower is black and by feet approximately 30min away from that one.

[JohnnyG]

Partially. Mostly used the selected areas and did a color cast removal by copying the later mask and using "Blur" at Average, inverting and using a soft light blend, adjusting opacity as needed. I also used the vibrance slider with a bit of a nudge to the left.

I generally get better results of adjusting selective colors using the channels adjusters in either HSB or just in channels itself.