For the past six or seven years, a small nearby town has attracted zillions of people in December by covering commercial buildings on several streets with dense arrays of colored lights. I was wishing that cars weren't parked in front of the lights I wanted to shoot. But, then, I saw this car was parked on one of the decorated side streets . . .
It's fun taking non-conventional photos with lots of people milling around. I should've kept track of the questions I was asked about what I was photographing.
9 exposure HDR
ISO 200, f/29 (made for some long exposures), zoom lens at 64mm
Photomatix -- tone mapping
added masked layers from two of the exposures to darken the street and the wheel well
healed away evidence of a car parked in front
cropped from the top to golden rectangle proportions
Topaz Simplify -- preset based on BuzSim
Photoshop Plastic Wrap filter
Color Efex -- Tonal Contrast and Polaroid Transfer
Levels
Curves -- 2 non-overlapping masked layers


