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Title: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Joey on August 31, 2012, 10:02:13 AM
I shot this earlier in the summer as the sun was setting. It may or may not be your style, but I liked it.  

http://sdrv.ms/O1688i
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: AquaMan on August 31, 2012, 10:03:59 AM
Couldn't link.
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Joey on August 31, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
Try it again.  There was a "#" in the url and this forum didn't like that character.  I modified the url.
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: AquaMan on August 31, 2012, 10:10:10 AM
Very striking sky. Did you alter it or was it that vibrant?

Looks like it was taken from the area just North of downtown on 244. Maybe up the hill off Cincinnati?
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: DolfanBob on August 31, 2012, 10:15:56 AM
Like it? I love it. It is now my desktop background. Awesome pic.
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Joey on August 31, 2012, 10:23:15 AM
Thanks, yes the location is on top of the hill across from the OSU-T campus. 
I took some creative liberty with saturation and contrast.
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Townsend on August 31, 2012, 10:37:28 AM
Quote from: Joey on August 31, 2012, 10:23:15 AM
Thanks, yes the location is on top of the hill across from the OSU-T campus. 

From Standpipe Hill?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/TulsaSkyline1890.jpg) 1890

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/TulsaSkyline1906.jpg) 1906

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/TulsaSkyline1909.jpg) 1909

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/HotelTulsaConstruction.jpg) 1911

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/TulsaSkyline1930.jpg) 1930



Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Ed W on August 31, 2012, 06:36:20 PM
I like it too.  Moments like that are magical because they're so fleeting.  Is this a high dynamic range image?
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Post by: GG on August 31, 2012, 08:58:04 PM
Outstanding!
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: jacobi on September 01, 2012, 01:03:40 PM
I love standpipe hill.  It's so deserted that it makes for a great place to take a girl to show off the view.  I wish that OSU would get off their behinds and develope it already.  Can you imagine a dorm tower or two being build there?  I have a very special place in my heart for that hill.
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: DolfanBob on September 02, 2012, 10:10:06 AM
Quote from: jacobi on September 01, 2012, 01:03:40 PM
I love standpipe hill.  It's so deserted that it makes for a great place to take a girl to show off the view.  I wish that OSU would get off their behinds and develope it already.  Can you imagine a dorm tower or two being build there?  I have a very special place in my heart for that hill.

I have never been there. How do I find it?
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Hoss on September 02, 2012, 10:16:32 AM
Quote from: DolfanBob on September 02, 2012, 10:10:06 AM
I have never been there. How do I find it?

This helps some.

http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/03/standpipe-hill.html
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Hoss on September 02, 2012, 10:23:09 AM
This also might.  It's my understanding that Cincinnati ran right through where the 'standpipe' was at the top of the hill.  So just west of it would probably be as close a vantage point as you will get.

http://goo.gl/maps/ngqgZ
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: Joey on September 03, 2012, 08:48:43 PM
It is not HDR.  HDR requires 3 or more images of various exposures.  This is a single image.

Quote from: Ed W on August 31, 2012, 06:36:20 PM
I like it too.  Moments like that are magical because they're so fleeting.  Is this a high dynamic range image?
Title: Re: Some of you might like this downtown photo.
Post by: nathanm on September 03, 2012, 09:14:51 PM
A single tone mapped image, from the look of it, but aggressive use of curves in Photoshop can sometimes produce the same halo effect.