This is Buckingham Fountain in Chicago. One of the things I noted when I looked at the RAW images of this cityscape was the sky turned out brownish. That must have happened because the daylight white balance setting I was using responded to the distant glow of the city's lights with that particular color scheme. I didn't like that, so in Adobe Camera Raw I moved the temperature slider to the right, i.e. the cooler side of the spectrum. That influenced the color on the buildings, but more importantly it turned the brown night sky into cobalt blue as if I'd been shooting at twilight. We shoot at the blue hour to get this kind of sky, but the frustrating fact is that we can't be in more than one place at twilight. Using this technique, it's easy to turn a night cityscape into one that looks like twilight. This shot was taken about 11pm. My settings were .8 seconds, f/5.0, and 160 ISO.
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