Well, it’s been a while since I posted and not a lot of photos taken in between, but I managed to get out and about last weekend. Thought I’d try and again take processing a bit further after creating a HDR. I had a look at a program called Lucisart and am still considering buying it. I quite like the effect that can be had, but having said that, I can nearly achieve the same result with shadow / highlight and High Pass Filter, but as I said, nearly!
The Musicians
Just a technical note, HDR created from one shot RAW file. Alterations made in Photoshop, High Pass Filter, Shadows & Highlights, Curves, Contrast and Unsharp mask. Duplicated layer and converted to Black and White. Oval marquee created on B/W layer with a feather radius of 150 pixels and hit delete to reveal the colour layer below.
As I mentioned, the technique I use has a similar outcome to Lucisart, but their product does the job simpler and has a nice ‘edge’ to it.
