Not much shooting today, trapped indoors this evening by thunderstorms. Shot this from the balcony out of desperation and ended up kinda liking it.
Convert to b/w with channel mixer
duplicate layer: soft light
flatten
curve to darken midtone
flatten
dodge/burn car
resized
dup layer of background, blend normal, really aggressive USM
dup layer of background, blend normal, gaussian blur
**played with fill % on both USM and blur layers until it looked "right"
smart sharpen background (normal sharpening)
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