After completing my flagship product Lightroom Rapid Editing for Landscapes, I am working to cover the next most important type of my photography: Architecture Photography. My goal is to cover all aspects of travel photography by the end of the year. I am hoping to help people interested in travel photography in the following areas: Landscapes, Architecture, People and HDR photography.
As I was going through my archives trying to collect the best examples for the architectural segment of my Lightroom Rapid Editing, I came across this photo from New York. I took it in the summer of 2006 and it was never published anywhere before. Somehow I missed its potential and ignored it for almost 10 years.
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I remember I liked the composition with the converging lines, but I was not too crazy about the colors. The predominant blue shades made the capture almost monochromatic. Now, with the help of Cross Processed presets I managed to bring it back to live, overexaggerating the colors of the reflections.
Shooting & Processing
The shooting was simple. I took a series of single shots at the shortest focal length (17mm) to get the widest perspective. I was aiming up, trying to get a piece of each building into the composition.
To process the photo, I used Lightroom Rapid Editing. First I applied Lightroom preset Hawaii Sunset from my Cross Processed Collection and later I used TOOLKIT to adjust increase the contrast and the saturation.
The Lightroom Editing Formula: Hawaii Sunset (4, 8, 16, 21, 25, 39)
Deconstructing Featured Photo
- Camera: Canon 60D
- Lens: Sigma 17-70mm
- Focal Length: 17mm
- ISO: 400
- Aperture: F10
- Shutter: 1/250s
- Bracketing: single shot
- Tripod: hand-held
Processing: Lightroom Rapid Editing
Lightroom: import, tagging, Lightroom Rapid Editing (Hawaii Sunset preset from Cross Processed Collection)
Photoshop: color correction, contrast.
Photoshop Plugins:
- Topaz DeNoise was used to reduce digital noise everywhere
- Topaz Clarity was used to enhance details and boost colors (buildings).
