Southern Arizona has a wide assortment of photogenic churches. Some are historic and built long ago, some were built to look that way. Here is a church from the movies, the Crooked Creek Chapel at Old Tucson Studios.
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Jan 302012
648 N Stone Ave, Tucson, AZ Apr 6, 2008 — This art deco gas station has been around for a while. I’ve seen two building dates 1924, and the 1930s. I don’t know which one is right. I do know that in the 60s it was a Shell Station, in the 70s it was a Union Gas Station. It appeared in the 1980s movie release “Stir Crazy.” The station was one of the first in Tucson back when Stone Avenue was a main road.
Today it’s a great place to buy Allstate Insurance!
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I imported and tagged the photo with Photo Mechanic. I used Adobe Lightroom for adding color profiles, basic adjustments, and exporting jpgs/tiffs from the raw to simulate HDR. I used Photomatix to tone-map the images into an HDR image. I spruced-up the image using the Topaz plug-ins: Denoise, Detail, Adjust, and Remask then touched-up the image using Adobe Photoshop. The black and white image was created by using the Adobe Photoshop black and white filter. The Sepia toning was accomplished with a #85 Photo filter in Photoshop.
PENTAX K20D
SMC Pentax-DA* 16-50mm ƒ2.8 ED AL [IF] SDM
ISO 100, ƒ4.5, 1/1000
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