Pic of the Week - Page 61
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Location: Conwy Castle on the north coast of Wales captured about 45 minutes after the sun had set at low tide.
This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera with a Canon 24~70mm F/2.8L lens set at 70mm. I used Liveview and 10x magnification to manually focus on the nearest boat. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/16, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 12 exposures from 30 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. The original HDRI sky was poor because of the cloud pattern and a strong halo around the castle, so this sky is from an image taken just after sunset about 30 minutes earlier at the same spot. After adjusting the RAW converter settings until the sky looked good and matched the colours, I then clicked Open Image. With the two images open in Photoshop, the next step was to drag the sky image and overlay it onto the HDRI with a layer mask and a gradient to define the split between the images. A little bit of painting on the mask and it was done! Click here to learn something new ... take part in a HDR workshop - Photography Workshops on the Isle of Wight - |