Another product of my wanderings along the Stephen A. Schwarzian Building of the New York Public Library, in Midtown Manhattan. And another stairwell, but this building is full of lovely details it's hard to stop rising the camera and creating another image. When I stopped here, there was a lot of people going up and down the stairs. So I waited a while until I had the stairs completely empty, but felt that the image was too sterile. After a few more minutes I could get a single figure walking up on the opposite side, this gave the scene some scale and a bit of movement. This only lasted a few seconds, as more people followed him. Here we have some very tricky lighting to contend with. The artificial light coming from the chandeliers is not strong enough to light the whole scene, and the natural light is very strong at the window, but very faint everywhere else. So I used exposure bracketing to try and get as much of the scenes details exposed correctly and some very light HDR techniques in post-production.

-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : HDR photomerge, initial tone and final crop.
Photoshop: Perspective correction, clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.