St Mary & St Finnian Church - CS5 HDR
Well I made the jump to CS5 after having skipped CS4, just don’t see the need to do the upgrade thing for every version. I read a lot about the improved HDR in CS5 and wanted to see if it lived up to the hype…soooo here’s my first experiment with HDR in CS5.
I have to say that it’s not too shabby, to steal one of Tony Sweet’s lines. The reduced noise and the ability to select one image for ghost removal worked pretty good. The tone mapping will take some time to get use to what the sliders do. This is NOT a review of the new HDR features in CS5, just some of my initial observations.
The image above is a 5 image HDR, using 1 stop EV with a D700 and a 24-70mm lens. I tonemapped in CS5 and did a lot of additional processing in CS5. Some processing included, Nik Color Efex Pro plug-in filters, Nik’s Viveza, Topaz Adjust and Simplify and the sky was dropped back in without any of the above filters and worked separately.
Click on image to view larger…
This is an image of St. Mary & St. Finnian Church along the Road to the Isles in Scotland. Somewhere I would surely like to visit again…we’ll see.
HDR-IR Pano - D200, IR converted, 18-35mm
The clouds were pretty good this morning so I thought I’d try a HDR IR panorama of the view…three sets of four images at each position bracketed in one stop EV. Stitched together in AutoPano Pro and finished off in CS3 with Nik Color Efex Pro.
After the shot we took our morning walk on the beach…click on image for a larger view.
Loch Ness at Dores No 1 - D700, 24-70
Going over some images from our Scotland trip I found these HDR black and white images I forgot to post. We were looking for a place to get down by the loch for a special request from a certain family member. As we were getting ready to leave the hotel in Inverness we ran into the hotel manager and asked him where we could get down to the water. He gave us some great directions and pointed us to Dores. Both of these were shot down by the boat launch area. A Frenchman was in his van getting ready to take his kayak out. It was a bit breezy and there was a chill coming off the water. Not the kind of day I would like to go kayaking alone…
Loch Ness at Dores No 2 - D700, 24-70
I can still feel the chill coming off the water…
Published on
January 14, 2010 in
HDR and Topaz.
A while ago I shot some photos (HDR) for a local business to use on one of their trucks. It was an interesting and challenging space to photograph, a large empty converted ribbon mill. Driving through town today I saw some of the images on one or their trucks. Good thing I had my G10 in the glove box so I could get a few shots of the finished product.
Ribbon Mill Truck, Image 1 - G10
Ribbon Mill Truck, Image 2 - G10
I know, not the greatest product shots you’ve seen lately but at least it shows the end use, sort of. Not the images I would have used from the session but then again it’s NOT my business or truck. Here is the large pano I shot, the image I would have used…
Ribbon Mill Pano - D700, 24-70mm - Click to view larger
This is a 8 shot HDR pano, 4 bracketed (2 stop ev) for each piece of the pano. That’s a total of 32 images taken for the final panorama.
Here are the two images they used for the truck before the cropping was done, these are 4 shot (2 stop ev ) HDR images. So the final image blow up was enlarged/pushed about as far as you might want to go…sometimes you just don’t have any control on a project and it doesn’t quite end up the way you might have liked.
Ribbon Mill 1 - Click to view larger
Ribbon Mill 4 - Click to view larger
Crail Cottage - D700, 24-70mm
On our way down to Edinburgh we stopped in Crail to visit some friends from 30+ years ago. We stayed with them for two days. One morning I took the camera for a walk down by the harbor and shot this cottage. Just loved all the texture layers…single image processed in Photomatix Pro and some Topaz Detail added.
Road to the Isles - D700, 24-70mm
Here’s another shot taken on our drive on the “Road to the Isles”. There were plenty of scenery like this all along the road but nowhere to a park and get out to take the photo. This spot had a parking area where I could safely get out and take some images.
This is a 5 shot HDR processed with Photomatix Pro and further work in Photoshop with Topaz Adjust, Topaz Detail and some Nik Color Efex Pro. The sky was blended back in, for a more natural look, from one of the 5 bracketed shots for the HDR.
St Mary & St Finnan Church - D700, 24-70mm
We came around the corner as we traveled the road to the isles and made a screeching stop to pull into the parking lot in front of this church. Here is a bit of history from the visitscotland web site:
The church was consecrated in 1873. Designed by E Welby Pugin in the Gothic style, the church enjoys an elevated and commanding position overlooking Loch Shiel with a spectacular view of the loch and surrounding hills. The church is a memorial chapel to the MacDonalds of Glenaladale, the family with whom Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed prior to the raising of the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in August 1745. The church contains memorial stones to the Prince and to members of the MacDonald family.
Published on
June 21, 2009 in
HDR.
HDR Great Room Pano - D700, 14-24 @ 14
A local builder, that did some work on our house a few years ago, asked me to take some photos of a job he was doing to use on his web site and to put on his work truck. I did some test shots one day and went back this week to shoot the photos. This is a 7 shot pano using a Really Right Stuff pano head. I shot 7 exposures at 1 stop EV, created the HDR images in Photomatix Pro and then stitched the pano using Panoramic Factory. There is some distortion due to the 14mm lens but it was the only way to get all the room in the shot to show the ceiling. He was pretty happy with the image, I think it works pretty well too…
