
The old Nevada City fire house at the top of Broad Street
This is the old fire house in Nevada City, California located at the top of the main street through town.
I took 9 exposures (at f/3.8) ranging from 1.6 seconds to 44 seconds. I wanted 45 seconds but a car was coming and I had to finish the exposure a little bit earlier then I would have liked.
As I usually do I used Photomatix Pro to compile the HDR using the following settings:
- Strength: 100
- Saturation: 50
- Luminosity: -2
- Light Smoothing: High
- Microcontrast: +10
Tone Settings:
- White Point: 1.196
- Black Point: 0
- Gamma: 1.01
Color Settings:
- Temperature: 0
- Saturation Highlights: 0
- Saturation Shadows: 0
Smoothing Settings:
- Micro-smoothing: 2
- Highlights Smoothing: 30
- Shadows Smoothing: 0
- Shadows Clipping: 50