Blacktop's 52 in 2016

Blacktop

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I'm taking the lazy way out this year. Last year was a little too ambitious I think and didn't finish it.

I'm going to post my best shot from each of the 52 weeks on that corresponding week.
I'm going to try a 365 this year, plus I'm waking up my music thread so it will be a lot.
 

Blacktop

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Week 1

First week of January was a short one, but managed a few shots. This would be my pic of the week.

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Blacktop

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I love this pic. I would love to do some abandoned places photography. How did you achieve the tone for this?

Thank you for the compliment.
This is actually a 3 shot HDR processed partly in Photomatix. I shot this having HDR in mind (the really over the top kind).
Then when I was playing around with it in Photomatix, I kind of liked it without the over the top stuff, and ended up processing it very little.
After that I took it back to LR and did my normal finishing touches, and even desaturating some of the colors, like yellow and orange and a little green.

I did however sharpen it a little in Topaz detail. Having done all this however, I could probably have been able to get the same result with just a single shot processing in Lightroom and a little in Photoshop.
I just like to play sometimes when I don't have that many shots to process..
 

Blacktop

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Week 6

Another week has past us by. Shorter of breath, one day closer to death.:listening_headphone
Only shot this weekend. This would be my favorite shot of the week.

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