Yo! Taxi! (HDR)

The story of this photo

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In Berlin you will see these horse carriages as in every other city on this globe with a bit of history. They are not good if you want to get somewhere fast, of course! 😉

I did not really think that this shot would turn out very good because the contrast was very high and three hand-held shots appeared not to be sufficient. Now, I like it because of that nice evening sun and the warm colors. Hope you like it too! 🙂

The post processing was actually comparably easy on this shot. Apart from some retouch work to remove small but ugly pieces of trash on the ground and a few sun flares, there are no selective adjustments anywhere – just global tone and color adjustments.

How it was shot

• Handheld [details]
• Three exposures (0, -2, +2 ev) autobracketed and merged to get and HDR
• Camera: Nikon D90
• Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
• Details can be found here

How it was tone-mapped

• 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 sky) [details]
• Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
• Some retouch (removed lens flare and small pieces of trash on the ground)
• Global levels layer (increased contrast, brightening)
• Global saturation layer (master)
• Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
• Watermarking

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