Pic of the Week - Page 85
Holiday greetings, everyone!
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Location: A festively decorated house near Camberley, Surrey This image was captured about an hour after sunset on Christmas evening 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 lights. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/10, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 11 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/30th 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, black and white conversion, toning and enhancement work was done back in Photoshop. The original HDRI sky was poor because of a strong halo around the house and trees, so this sky is from just one image in the set. After adjusting the RAW converter settings until the sky looked good and matched the colour, 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 then finished it. The star trails were captured separately see the Master Class in PhotoPlus issue 45 to see how they were captured, processed and combined. Click here to learn something new ... take part in a HDR workshop - Photography Workshops on the Isle of Wight - |