The Organ - St. Michaelis Church - Hamburg, Germany (HDR)

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The story of this photo:
This is the main organ in the St. Michaelis Church - Hamburg, Germany (better known as "Der Michel"). I was travelling through Hamburg on a business trip. It was one of those occasions where you have like 3 hours to visit all the major attractions. This church is one of them. So I was rushing through the city having several locations on my plan. No tripod, just my camera and me. Like on a military seek and rescue operation, I had to get in get my shots and get out again quickly to rush to the next location. Not the most relaxing visit. :-)

Unfortunately, about 3000 other people had the same brilliant idea of visiting the church on what was one of the first sunny days in Germany for a long time. So, I had to do quite some cropping to get rid of all those people in the lower part. I ended up with a bit of an unusual format. Judge for yourself.

Enjoy!

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How it was shot:
> Handheld [details]
> Three exposures (0, -2, +2 ev) autobracketed and merged to get and HDR
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here

How it was tonemapped:
> Preparation: developed the raw files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
> Tone-mapping: Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)

How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise on the entire image (more aggressively on the lower part of the image) [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Levels layers on the plates in the center and to the left and right (more contrast)
> Saturation layers on the lamps, the cyan tiles, he golden parts, and the organ
> Photo filter on the cyan tiles (for a bit more color)
> Saturation layer on the white interior (slight desaturation)
> Saturation layer on the pipes (desaturation)
> Lots of detail work (too much to explain here)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Watermarking

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Taken in: Deutschland / Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg / Hamburg / Klein Grasbrook (show map)

Taken on: March 12, 2011

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/3.5, 1/50 sec, 10mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Lens:	10.0-20.0 mm f/3.5
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	+2 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	ACD Systems Digital Imaging
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