The Escalator to Sin City

Todays photo is from Las Vegas, Nevada – or Sin City if you prefer that name – it’s a HDR made of 5 RAW exposures, after Photomatrix, I imported the matrix HDR and the 5 exposures into Photoshop as layers, with the HDR as the top layer, and then the masking starts, I mainly used the normal exposure – or the anchor as some may call it – for the trail lights and the sidewalk, right below the escalator. I then used the darks exposure (+2) for the signs and neon lights, and finally I used the -1 exposure for the sky – it got a bit grainy in the HDR process – and some of the darker areas. And of course I used the Topaz Adjust plug-in to give the photo its final finish.

The Escalator to Sin City by Bo47 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.