’twasn’t quite the night before Christmas, but it was at night and the stockings were hung by the chimney with care. The only thing I wish was different – outside of it not being the night before Christmas and there was no St. Nick – is that we had a real wood-burning fireplace. Oh well, it is still cozy and a great place to curl up with a nice hot drink – or one on the rocks – and a good book.
Day 76 of my 365 photo a day project.
This is a 5-shot HDR photograph with the images combined in Photomatix, exported into Lightroom as a 32-bit file. After basic adjustments in LR, the image was exported to Photoshop. Lots of color-correction, exposure correction, perspective correction, and added textures. I used On1 Perfect Effects 10, several passes of Topaz Impression and Topaz Glow, Topaz Clarity, and Nik Color Efex. Here is what the image looked like before I started the processing in Lightroom:
