Three shot bracket. First pass with PhotoMatix for interior and second pass with PhotoMatix for exterior.
Hue and saturation adjustment via Photoshop CS5 on both images to mitigate street lights (sodium I do believe and dang if that adjustment isn't a pain).
Used Topaz Remask for layer creation.
Used Topaz Detail to enhance outside layer.
Adjusted aperture by -1.5 on outside layer.
Flattened image.
Resized. No crop.
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Things that disappoint me about this photo.
1). It rained too hard in Seattle for me to get this photo except on the last day. Even that was luck
2). My internet was down for hours before I could post this. Too late to fix.
3). Speaking of fixing, the white point is too high on the interior and the dang sodium lighting just took all the atmosphere out of the photo.
4). The "white" reflections off of the window in the background and the placard on the building were originally yellow from the lights. Something about that annoys me but I just can't put my finger on it.
5). Other shots I took shortly after this were lost due to possible memory card issue. This could have been much better.
But this is always a learning experience and hope I don't get beat up too badly on this despite the epic failure described above.
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Wow, this looks like a child's dream. I really love the color tones of this picture.
I am a little baffled, because I really dislike the metal fence in the picture, but can't really find a suitable suggestion of how you could have gotten rid of it or less noticeable, without also making the composition less interesting.
Ah well, its not a big deal anyways 7
Nice capture of the season. I like the name of this store quite a bit. I think I would have liked a tighter crop so we could focus more on the window than the surroundings (of course, a bit of surroundings is good to setup context).
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