How'd You Do Dat?

I've been very happily receiving  some praise for a shot I took back in February of 2008. I was experimenting with the high ISO setting on my Canon EOS 5D, shooting at ISO 3200 at night. I was hoping to get a shot with very little noise.

I'll review my settings and show you the finished product that got good reviews during my December show at the Art Corner, in Slidell.
This shot was one of several taken at Woldenburg Park, on the New Orleans river front, on a pretty chilly and breezy night. The settings in my data say I used 1.6 sec at f10 and ISO 3200. You can see that the water is smoothed over by the long exposure. The star bursts from the lights on the right happened naturally. I think there was just enough moisture in the air for that to happen. You can see an overcast cloud deck that hung rather low and reflected enough of the city lights to give the scene that bronze look.

I worked on this picture quite a bit in Photoshop and Corel Painter to get a more foggy look and I even added a person. There were very few people on the walkway that night so I just stole one from an entirely different photograph. Here's the product from which I've made a giclee.

As a giclee on gallery wrapped canvas this is 26" x 36".