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Let’s have a look today on one of my recent photos and how it was edited. This time I chosen this very early morning shot from the Bir-Hakeim bridge in Paris. So lets start :)
When you compare the final and the starting shot, the biggest thing I needed to correct was how crooked the photo was, the color, and tone down on the sky, and brighten the shadow places.
I started with Lightroom, where I removed the chromatic aberrations, toned down the highlights, and corrected the crooked horizon. I also needed to correct the perspective distortion a bit. From there I exported all the files and loaded them into Oloneo Photoengine. Not much work there, as just by changing the TM strength, I got almost all I needed. I also moved the hue a bit toward purple, as the picture was a little too green.
From here I loaded the Photoengine result and the original 0Ev exposure into Photoshop. The 0EV was a second export from lightroom, where I opened the shadows, toned down the highlights and tweaked the hue, so it blends more nicely with the HDR.
In Photoshop I did the following steps (numbered from bottom up):
1. Oloneo Photoengine result
2. The 0EV exposure, to get rid of the moving car that passed while I took this photo
3. Merged layer, on which I removed the dust spots, and the crane on the right side
4. Color Efex Pro Contrast, to get a bit more local contrast into the photo
5. Color Efex Polarization to darken the sky
6. A bit of correction to the left side, as there was another crane visible :)
7. Noise reduction using Imagenomic noiseware, but I removed it from the trees, and it destroyed all the detail.
8. Another merged layer, on which I removed all the white outlines. Here I’m including a before/after shots, to see what I mean. This outlines are a result of the HDR process, where two areas with very different brightness come together. If you want to see exactly how I got rid of them, check out the tutorial I made about this. Btw. you can still see them a little in the final photo, but that’s due to the sharpening process. If I printed the full resolution file, there would be none :)
And that’s all I did with this image. To find out more on how I edit, check out the guides and before after categories on this blog, or check out my video tutorial series here:
One of the best things about traveling, is just tasting all the food. And if you ever been in the Czech republic, you know that their traditional food is just great. So since today I’m posting a photo from Cesky Krumlov, I’m also including a snapshot I took during lunch the day I took this photo. And for those curious, the lunch was “Old Bohemian feast – chicken, smoked meat, millet, potato cake, dumpling, potato, salad”. After that, I had enough energy for the whole day :)
This photo is a 2 shot panorama, with each shot from 4 exposures. Combined panorama in PTgui, combined HDR in Olone Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.
Due to shipping delays, my own Surface Pro 4 is still few days away, but today I have here something for those of you who already own one. I added a new part to my wallpapers page, with wallpapers at the 3:2 aspect ration, exactly sized for the Surface Pro 4, that is 2736×1824 resolution. But since thats quite a lot, they should look great on the Surface Pro 3, the Surface 3 and also the Surface Book. You can head over to the wallpapers page to download them. As with other parts, I will be adding more randomly over time :)
And one very nice thing, that I noticed only just now (I feel stupid that I didn’t noticed it before :)) is that 3:2 is exactly the same aspect as most cameras use, so it just fits so nicely.
I feel so sleepy when it’s raining outside. And it has been for the whole day today. But still, to keep up with the blog, how about another photo from Dubai, taken right at the moonrise.
This is a HDR from 5 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.
