Pic of the Week - Page 59
St Lawrence's Church
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Location: St Lawrence's Church in Seale, Surrey
This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera with a Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L lens. I used Liveview and 10x magnification to manually focus on the nearest gravestone, and lens shift was used to keep the church upright. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/22, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 10 exposures from 8 seconds all the way to 1/60th of a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS/5. 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 trees. I opened the 1/15th of a second exposure out of the sequence and adjusted the RAW Converter settings until the sky looked good, then opened the image. This image of the sky was then dragged and overlaid on the HDRI with a layer mask and a grad to define the split between the images. A little bit of painting on the mask and you’re done! Click here to learn something new ... take part in a HDR workshop - Photography Workshops on the Isle of Wight - |