Benedum Trees Building, Fourth Avenue, downtown Pittsburgh, as seen reflected off the plate glass of a nearby building.
In PSP X2, perspective correction, crop, NI w/sharpen, channel mixer (boosted red, green; sunk blue), levels, curves, cloned out some cables above the building, burned the right side of the building slightly, USM (2/100/6), NI w/sharpen, resize, USM (.8/40/12), JPG.
POST: Wow. I'm thinking 38th place isn't a bad place to be with my first Free Study entry. And it's a new personal best, so no arguments there! Thanks for the votes and comments. This one was a lot of fun.
Here's the original, resized only, for those interested:
And here's an outtake:
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Place: 38 out of 428 Avg (all users): 6.4414 Avg (commenters): 7.2000 Avg (participants): 6.4479 Avg (non-participants): 6.4286 Views since voting: 1489 Views during voting: 221 Votes: 145 Comments: 23 Favorites: 4 (view)
I really do love this one Brian, especially the wonderful reflections, and awesome patterns.....
Surprised it didn't get a higher score, as I gave you an 8.....
This is truley a unique shot that you had to see the final outcome of before you snap the photo. I commend you on being able to do that. What a great b/w conversion as well. This is excellent.
Often these distortion shots come over as cheesy but you've done an amazing job with this. I adore the black and white conversion you've done and the high contrast, tones, framing and distortion really make for an appealing image.
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