This is another photo from my St. Bridget's church project. It's similar to a previously posted photo, but this is shot from the vantage of the choir loft. instead of the floor. Probably won't make it to the final product, but this one was a learning experience.
<http://georges.posterous.com/st-bridgets-church-from-the-choir-loft#!/> Just a couple of thoughts. The temperature in the choir loft is about 10-15 degrees warmer than down on the floor. My thoughts wandered back to my grade school years. They crammed about 40 choir members in that small space and back then it was not air conditioned. It must have been sweltering in the summer. After my first trip, I learned that it takes every bit of +/- 4 stops to catch the detail in the highlights and shadows. I only did 3 stops on the first trip and was surprised that some of the highlights were still not quite captured. It makes sense, those are spotlights aimed at white marble and gold leaf. Over the weekend I started working with Nik's HDR Efex Pro 2. I had been working with the latest version of Photomatix. After using both, for a few days I'm pretty sure that I prefer the Nik's sofware.The controls are a bit more rational for me, and it seems much easier to achieve a natural looking result. If you're looking for over-the-top HDR you can likely get there with either product. I did most of the finishing in the Nik software, but the final fine tuning was done in Lightroom. I did a final adjustment on the white and black points and fine tuned the white balance. I also used the adjustment brush to lighten the Apse painting above the altar. This is going to be a very interesting project. gs George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
