Tree of Peace

I was in Verona, NY this week for work and spent some time at the Turning Stone Casino. Didn’t win any money but I did find this beautiful glass art creation by Dale Chihuly on display on the second level.

 

Photomatix

Three auto-bracketed shots in RAW (-2, 0 +2 EV) then converted to HDR and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro using Details Enhancer. Light smoothing set to medium.

 

Photoshop

- Added a layer mask of curves to lighten then another curves layer for contrast.

- Added a layer mask of saturation/vibrance for the ceiling

- Added a cooling filter layer mask to enhance the lighting

- Added a layer of Topaz Adjust4 (photo pop)

- Noise reduction with Topaz DeNoise4

- Sharpened with high pass filter at 2.5

 

View LARGE On Black

 

Done