Spiritflier:

Yours looked fine in the mag Si...

I read that initially as "You looked fine in the mag Si.."

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It is a bit, I have to admit.
But in my defence, I find churches pretty cold, thats just me.
I wanted to make it look more inviting.

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I reckon there's a caption competition in that pic at the bottom of page 27

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veggiesosage:

I reckon there's a caption competition in that pic at the bottom of page 27

As long as it's cleaner than the "captions" that were being uttered when we were trying to take it!

Not that anyone would blaspheme in such a place as a church, eh Ben?

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Ha ha, nice one Si!

I thought it worked out great. Well done to you lot.

Matt, I wouldn't worry too much about the warmness of the church interior. On balance it's the least factor which makes the shot great. And it's nothing that's not tweakable.

Keep the feedback coming.

Cheers

Ben

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Just about to pop down the shops to grab a copy

 

I think I may have to enter this months comp though.

 

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That was a great article guys, and thanks matt, I never thought about using levels to increase contrast.

Incoporating a bit of matts stuff into my workflow I reprocessed two of the shots I did on monday. and I'm reasonably happy, though I think Its not something I'll be using too often.

 

I think I made this one too dark, though I tried to lighten it using a second adjustment of the curves. I like the way it somehow exaggerated the perspective even more then it already was.

 

The second one I'm more happy with as it really did just add to it once I made some more adjustments on top of it (extra adjustments to the foreground to bring it back up again without losing the added contrast.)

 

 

 

I guess I can add this to my small collection of photoshop techniques. You learn from others, and I have alot to learn :D

 

 

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Just read my copy, nice article guys.  Can't say that I'm going to rush out and start taking 5 exposures of everything, but as already commented, when it works it can work well.  I think the interior shot of the church is a great example of this (even if it is a bit warm in the mag). 

I'm still don't understand the blending options, guess I'll have to give it a go to really appreciate it.  Can't quite get my head around it.   But then it's taken me a year to start using layers! 

 

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Guys, great article in this months magazine, well done, really enjoyed reading it and very well put together for those like me that are HDR virgins.

Here's a shot that I've played with quite obviously but I did venture into HDR slightly using advice from Matt's piece.

Cheers guys and have a good weekend all.

Tim

 

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i'm certainly no expert at hdr tim but although your image looks quite moody it's spoilt by the lighting of the car - it's simply too bright in the wrong places. looking at the sky and what i take to be the moon then the car should be more backlit. as it is, it appears as though a thumping great spotlight is illuminating the wheels. one of those cases where less is more i think. ok, shut up now.

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Thanks Forseti, indeed your right and in this image one of the main elements was the wheels so they were lit with two heads using snoots, their is another version with only the light across the top of the car and glass that fades into this shot slowly.

Valid point tho and always interesting to get feedback, thanks again, sorry you didn't like it.

Cheers

Tim

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Ive dabbled with abit of HDR esque images but prefer the control of changing exposures via RAW, I find Dr Browns services useful (found via Martin Evenings CS3 for photographers) theres a script which lets you open 1 image as 2 smart objects via RAW. 

here my faveourite so far!!

 

 

and some other not quite as successful attempts

Enjoy!!!!!!

 

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I've had a go but I'm not sure it's for me to be honest.  Maybe I need to put more time in but my results weren't as good as I hoped.  These interior shots used 9 exposures (you need to click for full size image as they're a bit too big for the forum):

I think the third and fourth ones are my favourite's.  I might go back and try again one day.

They look good to me Be4ch. I would be more than happy if I had produced them. However don't you think we are our own worst critict when it comes to assesing our own photographs !!

I've dabbled a bit too - I also do a bit more in cs2. If I redid this one I think I would use the faster water speed instead of the hdr mix just to get a little more detail swirling around.

It's good fun on a rainy day though!

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