Pic of the Week - Page 51
The Church of St Mary and St Gabriel, Stoke Gabriel
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Location: Sunrise through a 1,000 year-old yew tree in the churchyard of The Church of St. Mary and St. Gabriel, a church which has stood in Stoke Gabriel since Norman times.
Stoke Gabriel is a village and parish in Devon, England, situated on a creek of the River Dart.
This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera with a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II lens. I used Liveview and 10x magnification to manually focus on the nearest gravestone, and lens shift was used to keep the church tower upright.. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/22, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 14 exposures from 1 second all the way to 1/8000th of a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS/4. The HDRI was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up and image correction/enhancement work was done back in Photoshop. I did not like the original HDRI sky because there was a strong halo around the church and tree so I opened the 1/500th of a second exposure out of the sequence, adjusted the RAW Converter settings until the sky looked good and then opened the image. This image of the sky was then overlaid on the HDRI with a layer mask and a grad to define the split between the images. Click here to learn something new ... take part in a HDR workshop - Photography Workshops on the Isle of Wight - |