Streeterville Skyline Reflected

Taken from one of the rarely used fountains in Olive Park. I think this is my 4th visit to Olive park this year and each time I hoped to find some standing water in one of the fountains to take a reflection shot. Last night was the night.

 

It was pretty windy last night. Somehow I managed to get a couple of brackets off without having the wind wipe away the reflection. Stupid wind. Also I nearly took a header stalking around what was apparently a rather slippery fountain. Who knew slip resistant water shoes are an essential photography requirement.

 

Processed in Lightroom after using Photomatix to create a 32-bit HDR TIFF. I've tried this workflow a couple of times before but didn't like the result as much as tonemapping or blending by hand. This time the 32-bit version turned out the best.

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Uploaded on October 25, 2012
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