This one's from our recent trip to Belarus. It's a monument to the revolution, or the Onward March of the Worker, or something, looming above an ordinary storefront, not far from the Old Town Square in Minsk.
The thing's so overdone it invited some post-production caricature. So I left the color in the people but desaturated everything else, blurred the sky to make it seem to encroach on the rest of the scene, and darkened and added contrast to the monument itself. It was created from a single RAW photo re-exposed at +2 & -2, the three images recombined in Photomatix, and then finished in Photoshop CS5 with Nik Software's Dfine 2.0. Click it to make it bigger.
There's no Belarus Gallery up yet on EarthPhotos.com, but we're working on it and we'll have a dozen or two photos up soon. It is, however, along with 278 others, in the EarthPhotos.com HDR Gallery.
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