Short and sweet this one. I decided to take my time and set up my shot. HDR, 3 shots, 2 stops apart, also mounted a polariser, a half grad and a ND 4 filter.
Combined and tone mapped in Photomatix, curve for contrast adjustment in Photoshop. High Pass filter, Shadows and Highlights and some dodging and burning to finish it off.
I have some more to process so I’ll post soon.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Great shot, John !
Other HDR pictures on your blog are really nice too. I made some attempts with Photomatix myself (http://gillescharvin.blogspot.com/2007/06/quelques-geekeries-la-photo-hdr.html )
but I was only able to make photos that look fake.
As opposed to that, your photos look dramatically surreal but not too much….
Gilles
January 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Thanks Gilles
I’ll pop over and have a look at your stuff.
JC
April 6th, 2011 at 2:48 am
These are utterly amazing! I’m new to the ND filter, bought it yesterday (ND4) myself and was wondering if I was doing something wrong..Probably need to adjust my manual settings. Just need to experiment. This tip in Photoshop post processing helps. Thanks! – Al