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HDR: Pittsburgh

            ...I am not going to say that I like this shot. The sky looks a bit too dramatic to be realistic. That being said the sky had not some nice cloud formations that day and the HDR really brought them out. 

I shot this from Mount Washington in Pittsburgh used a tourist map as a tripod. The sky was overcast and there was no way a conventional shot would capture the view as I saw it. So I shot three exposures and combined them used Photomatix. I then sharpen the final image twice in Picasa and hit 'Auto Contrast'. I don't know why, but the Photomatix image always looks blurry to me even though the original shots are not - and the preview in Photomatix is not.

I tried doing the HDR thing in Photoshop (I've not a trail version of some sorts) without much success. No doubt I have to read and experiment more.

Pittsburgh by the way was a huge positive surprise. I was expecting grime and industrial decay, but instead I got hills, views and a thriving cosmopolitian city. I have to return. It beats out Cleveland, St Louis, Indy, Cincinnati and Columbus. I'd rate it probably as interesting as Baltimore, DC and Philadelphia.

Taken on: February 5, 2008

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