The Escalator to Sin City

Today’s photo is from , Nevada – or Sin if you prefer that name – it’s an  made of 5 RAW exposures, after , I imported the matrix HDR and the 5 exposures into 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 and the , right below the . I then used the dark exposure (+2) for the and 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.

  • Camera: NIKON D3S
  • Taken: 2 August, 2010

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