Went out scouting for an upcoming shoot, apparently this place is 192 total acres and has maybe 40ish buildings on it. Full back-story is on my blog, link at the bottom.
All photos on 5d2, lenses noted with photos, all post in LR3.
The above 3 were shot with a Sigma 12-24 @12mm, hand-held at higher iso's (800-1600) and 3-shot auto-bracketed, pulled into LR3 and after lens correction were merged in Nik's HDR EFEX Pro, utilizing one of their b&w combo's and then further tweaked before being exported. I rarely do HDR, will take open critique and ways to improve on it (obviously use a tripod w/ a lower iso) but don't feel these have the overly processed yuck most early HDR's used to. These 3 are the only HDR shots, the rest are single.
6 stories up, this was shot on the roof of one building (where the previous staircases led me) with a 24-70L @ 24mm, and I actually had the forethought to bring my circular polarizer with me, so some of the vignette and deep richness of the sky is in-camera, enhanced in LR3. Using real filters and not relying on post is something I want to start doing again, days like yesterday make me want to go buy gradient filters.
100mm f/2 at f/2.8, b&w done with Nik Silver EFEX Pro.
24-70L @ f/8 with circ polarizer
You can make out 6 of the massive, windowless buildings just in this one shot, the place is massive.
More of the back story and 27 total photos can be found here: http://www.mikepanic.com …l-park-kinsey-distillery/
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