How they Shot And Edited this skyline photo

This is a very good tutorial showing step by step proccessing.
Lisa

How I Shot And Edited It: Seattle Skyline
by Peter West Carey

Click on the above image for a 1200 pixel wide version.

I had a number of requests to explain how I shot and edited this image and I thought it might be helpful to the DPS audience at large to explain it here. When I first started in photography 20+ years ago, I was often baffled by the results some pros were able to accomplished and it was only through asking that I found tricks to give my images similar looks. I understand that nothing is more frustrating than to try to emulate something you like and facing unanswered questions.

Shooting

I shot this scene with a Pentax 645D and 55mm lens. This is a medium format camera and the images are large, with lots of detail. My original shot had to include more skyline than I wanted by being restricted to the one lens (Pentax is loaning the camera to me for review purposes and I did not have a choice of lens).
While waiting for the sun to show, I took some sample images and adjusted my settings.

Here is the shot as it came out of the camera.



For settings I used ISO 100, 55mm, f/5 and 1 second in Manual mode. I used the camera’s ability to create a DNG file and this is a JPG version you see above. Otherwise, no edits at this point.
I was looking for clarity of the image and a good color saturation

Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/how-i-shot-and-edited-it-seattle-skyline#ixzz26MTu3zgn