I’m getting a little tired of my usual bag of post-processing tricks, and I have several images in my publishing queue that are pretty much HDR-processed, but with no additional processing added. Nevertheless, in this image, I went with the now old-hat post-process tilt-shift, because this station, with the tops of the buildings peeking up behind its awning, looks almost fake anyway. It seemed appropriate to enhance, rather than shrink away from, that natural element.

Of course, I’m also open to learning new tricks, and read about one in a blog post just this morning. I’m not going to link or describe it because it is quite obvious, and I’m a little embarrassed I hadn’t thought of it myself. I’ll fess up the first time I use it.

Meanwhile, this elevated subway platform in Brooklyn was shot hand held as tripods are not allowed on the subway (you can carry them, but not use them).  while tripods are certainly optimal, I think too many people shy away from hand held HDR bracket sets.  It is not that hard to keep fairly steady, and most HDR programs do a decent job of aligning the images.  I personally do not have the steadiest hands.  If I can do it, so can you.