Bit of something different, actually went out to shoot a landscape pano but it started raining and I didn't want to come back empty handed so I give you....Phone Booth
f/1.4 so the cloud cover behind is nicely under
bokehhhh. I shot this using 5 bracketed shots and merged in Photomatix with manual adjustments via ton map + detail enhancer. The plan was to get the lamppost highlights playing ball with the surrounding and getting the colours from the falloff nice too. Like Trey Ratcliff, I too like to keep a balance of blackness in HDR processing as it gives other colours more visibility.
There's just something different about pre-sunrise light, the colours all marry quite nicely.
I sometimes get frustrated when I see amazing images but no notes on how those images were shot which then requires me to do various styles of web trawling to try and find tips or just go out and test stuff out until it works so I try to post details on more complex looking stuff when I can if it's not been covered before 
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