Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
This is Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium. I used several photos b/w gold hour and blue hour for this time blend. In addition, I was super upset that the tree didn't light up while I was there. Not sure if I really wanted to come back for this shot or not I decided to try and see if I could "turn the lights on" my self. It took 400 radial filters in lightroom and a little more than 2 hours of my time but I think it actually turned out quite nice. I couldn't believe how well it worked actually. After all of that I probably will end up going back and doing the shot again with the tree "actually" lit up. Any feedback would be welcomed. Thanks for looking!
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Very nice Kyle. Great job on the photo manipulation but more-so than that, I really like your control of the highlights in the rest of the scene.
Thank you. I used an underexposed image (exposed for the lights) to blend in the highlights.
I'm a bit disturbed by the tree overwhelmingly blocking the best part of the building. I think that the building seems more interesting than the tree. Maybe taking the shot at 4 o'clock to get both in the photos?
Yeah, I struggled with that as well. I wasn't expecting the tree to be there when I went to photograph the building. Had I known the tree wasn't going to light up I would have just moved in front of the tree to keep the building centered. I didn't think the building would look that good from a corner like that but it might have worked. I'll probably end up going back anyway and check it out then. With buildings like this, I like centered compositions better though.
Are you allowed to fly a drone here?
I believe so.
That's cheatin', Kyle! ;-)