Lotusm50 wrote:
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This looks great. Would love to know more about how you did it and your exposure blending process.
Thx!!!
The starting point is capturing more exposures. For Night photography I use a bulb exposure and timer remote. 1st I get a slightly overexposed image to get in as much detail of the buildings as possible (no shadows in the histogram). Then I add a set of shorter exposures (e.g. 8, 5,3,1 and. 0.2 sec for the billboards at f/8).
The process after this differs from photo to photo. Sometimes I use Photomatix to do a blend and then combine it with the original exposures in Photoshop using layer masks and painting in elements from each photo. This particular photo was a full manual blend just adding in from each exposure those elements that are best exposed. An easy way to isolate tones can be fully manual, a \"luminosity mask\" or by using the selection command in Photoshop.
