Pudong, the “new city” side of the Shanghai is incredibly picturesque at night, when viewed from the opposite side of the Huangpu river, the Bund. In the morning, the sun illuminates the city from the Pudong side, so I wanted to explore how the Bund would look like in this light, and also take some photos of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower up close. It turned out that the smog caused by humidity and pollution is so heavy that even when the sun was directly behind me, the contrast was incredibly low.
I boosted both the contrast and saturation in post-processing as much as I reasonably dared, without sacrificing realism of the scene. Another thing that required quite a bit of processing was cloning out sensor dust, which always becomes visible, usually in the areas of flat colour (e.g. the sky), when the lens is stopped down to f/11 or higher f-numbers.
