Used a 90mm lens to draw in the distant hills enough to make them a backdrop since the skies weren't too appealing.
- Took 3 images (+/- 2.0 EV) handheld
- Assembled them in NIK HDR Efex Pro (from Lightroom)
- Cropped in LR
- Converted to B/W in Nik Silver Efex Pro
- Added a warming filter in CS5 to get it slightly yellowed/aged
- Resized in CS5 to 800px
- Sharpened in CS5 with 0.2 radius - 43%
- Export from LR to DPC friendly file size and format
No layers, spotediting or selections. All editing was done globally to the entire image.
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This is almost a 'miss' for me. The building looks new and the picture is both too sharp and too clear for a vintage treatment but has part of it done by the change to a black and white with the added coloration. Might want to rethink post processing.
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