Tower Bridge Sunset

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Part of the problem with this past trip to California is that I have a few pictures from both the Golden Gate and the Tower Bridge that I like. I want to spread them out a bit, but I feel that I have to show some of them before showing others. I thought that I would show this picture right away because of the speed that was needed to get it. We were at the Musical Festival in Old Sacramento when I saw the light was fading. I knew that I wanted to get up to our room quickly to get a picture of the sun setting over the bridge. When we initially checked into the room I used an app on my phone to see where the sun would set precisely. I was very pleased to see that it would set just to the side of the bridge. When you only have a couple of days at a particular location you have to hope that things work out in your favor.   This time things worked out. I even got a boat to come through at the right time.

Technical Data

This is a three shot HDR photo processed in Photomatix. I took the shots with a bias towards the sun so that it would not be blown out. I then took the 32 bit image that Photomatix gave me, and I opened it back up in Lightroom to use the sliders there. I love the power of those sliders in Lightroom. I worked them to bring out the detail that I saw in person that day. I have been using Photomatix a bit more lately since the trip to California. I may post a couple of images straight out of the program in the near future. After Photomatix I ran the photo through Color Efex Pro. I used the detail extractor preset that I have come to like as well as the glamour glow preset. I think that it improved the original picture very much.

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