About the Image(s)

This is from the last Pittsburgh Festival. The building is known as The Bank Tower. The image is based on a five shot bracket using a Canon 1 DX MK II and 16-35 F4 lens at 35mm. The bracket was at iso 6400 and F 16 with two shots at one stop intervals above and below a base exposure of 0.2 seconds which was at +.67 ev to the meter recommendation. The raw files were processed in DxO Pure Raw 3. The blend was done in Aurora 2019 using the Modesto preset. This preset enhanced the blue light coming through the windows along the staircase and hitting the normally bluish gray stairs. It isn’t perfectly true to the actual stair color as you would see them, but I felt the added emphasis on the color contrast between the stairs and the rails was a nice plus. The two landing steps (rectangles) you can see at the top step and one level down are actually pinkish marble. I found they overpowered the design and pulled the eye there, so I took a color sample from the stairs and blended that color in using a solid color fill layer and Hard Light blend mode with reduced opacity on the layer. A small crop to a bit more of a panel and a little sharpening with Topaz was all that remained.