I'm not much for street, although coincidentally I was walking around the city the other day teaching my friend a few things, we were in a place called Hindley Street, it's one of the drinking strips around here, had a lot of social/drunken problems and fights during the nights (although it's a lot better than it was 20 years ago), during the day there's a lot of cool artsy cafes and such (i wouldn't take my camera there at night), a uni down the road, and still some hotels (not unlike parts of Amsterdam).
In short, it's a place with character, and I reckon this shot nicely sums up that character: headquarters of the symphony orchestra next to a 2nd-hand op-shop (in a run-down building that reminds me of Singapore); "massage" parlour further down (not sure if the strip-club is in shot or not, maybe it's just out of frame); and the 1970s car just pulling in (probably with a bogan/bikie driving, or maybe an old guy who's kept the car for 40 years).
7D, samyang 35/1.4 @ f/6 or so, 6-shot (2/3EV apart) HDR handheld, stitched in Hugin (with some pedestrians masked out) and tone-mapped in Luminance using 'Fattal' algorithm. I've kept a bit of saturation in there, because the place does really have a lot of 'colour' (in every sense of the word). I might come across some better algorithm later on, but for now this is my entry...
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Originally Posted by Dr Croubie
