This is a favorite three story tall metal art structure by Phoenix, Arizona USA's Sky Harbor International Airport that I like to photograph. In this image I tried to bring out it's incredible textures.
Post:
1-Convert to 16-bit .tiff image
2-Duplicate background, apply noise reduction and do minor cloning
3-Standard Levels contrast adjustment
4-Curves for midtone adjustments
5-Slective color for Blue, cyan, red and yellow color corrections
6-Selective color adjustment for sky only
7-Selective color for black areas only
8-50% Overlay for black and white darken and vivid light highlighting
9-Crop, resize for web
10-Smart Sharpen with some minor final cloning
11-Save for web
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