Ooooh! Aaaaah! :-) A wonderful image, George. Here is HDR used skillfully to most excellent effect. If you continue to maintain this standard, you will have a bestseller book on your hands.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
