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Spires in the Sky | Pittsburgh, PA

Despite living there for 23 years, I can say without bias that I love Pittsburgh, PA. There is just a feel about the city and the people there that I haven't gotten anywhere else. I can also say that in the two years since moving to North Carolina, I have spent more time in downtown Pittsburgh than I did in the 23 years I was there. Weird, huh? I guess the saying is true, 'you don't know what you have until it's gone.' I didn't realize how truly great the city was until I moved on and went out into the "real world."

This is a three shot HDR image of PPG Place in the heart of downtown (or dah-tahn if you speak Pittsburghese). The security here is pretty big on kicking out tripod toting folks, so I shot this handheld and moved on. I guess I looked touristy enough. It was merged in Nik HDR Efex Pro, which is different for me. I have been toying with it a little more lately and I still have the same thoughts on it. Merged images seem a lot flatter than they do when using Photomatix (my #1 choice in tonemapping software), but with the aid of some contrast adjustments in Nik Color Efex and Viveza this image seemed to come out better then my Photomatix version. The jury's still out on the Nik's HDR software in my mind.

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