Jimmy McIntyre - Editor HDR One Magazine
Petra by Night - inside the treasury
New Journal 64 – Petra By Night, in the Treasury
For the journal entry, a before/after comparison and technical info, feel free to visit my blog: www.throughstrangelenses.com/2013/12/09/petra-by-night-in...
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- Petra By Night Workflow details -
The two exposures were gently blended using luminance masks, which you can learn in my Art of Digital Blending course. You can download my free luminance mask actions at the bottom of this page.
A lot of work was needed on this image. With such a tight time frame, and under poor lighting conditions, my exposures were not what they should have been. They required some much needed love and affection in Photoshop. The White Balance was way out. Both general and specific colour corrections were made. Although the treasury walls were very close in colour to the opposing wall, I chose to desaturate the treasury interior a touch to create greater contrast between interior and exterior elements.
While the image is framed on three sides (top, left & right), I felt the bottom was lacking slightly, so I added a stronger vignette which helped to close the composition somewhat.
The Clone Stamp was used rather liberally to remove people, posts, and a car to the left, where added colour corrections were made. I pulled out detail very selectively inside the treasury, painting a Detail Extractor mask in the columns and the highlighted areas outside of the upper vignette.
A Glamour Glow layer softened the rocks opposite and added softness to the glow of the lamps.
The brightest exposure managed to capture some nicely clear stars in the sky, but being so close to town the stars weren’t strongly visible. I layered in some stars from an image I’d shot the day before in the desert. Although I wanted the sky to have some visible stars, I didn’t want them to be the focus of the shot so I dropped the contrast significantly.
I would never usually shoot at such a high ISO outside of astro shooting, but being so pushed for time, I couldn’t open my shutter longer than 20 seconds. Fortunately, the added noise was certainly manageable.
Petra by Night - inside the treasury
New Journal 64 – Petra By Night, in the Treasury
For the journal entry, a before/after comparison and technical info, feel free to visit my blog: www.throughstrangelenses.com/2013/12/09/petra-by-night-in...
Learn Post-Processing:
Free 1.7gb Digital Blending megapack - goo.gl/Q5pCrt
The Complete Digital Blending Course - goo.gl/eD2dWp
- Petra By Night Workflow details -
The two exposures were gently blended using luminance masks, which you can learn in my Art of Digital Blending course. You can download my free luminance mask actions at the bottom of this page.
A lot of work was needed on this image. With such a tight time frame, and under poor lighting conditions, my exposures were not what they should have been. They required some much needed love and affection in Photoshop. The White Balance was way out. Both general and specific colour corrections were made. Although the treasury walls were very close in colour to the opposing wall, I chose to desaturate the treasury interior a touch to create greater contrast between interior and exterior elements.
While the image is framed on three sides (top, left & right), I felt the bottom was lacking slightly, so I added a stronger vignette which helped to close the composition somewhat.
The Clone Stamp was used rather liberally to remove people, posts, and a car to the left, where added colour corrections were made. I pulled out detail very selectively inside the treasury, painting a Detail Extractor mask in the columns and the highlighted areas outside of the upper vignette.
A Glamour Glow layer softened the rocks opposite and added softness to the glow of the lamps.
The brightest exposure managed to capture some nicely clear stars in the sky, but being so close to town the stars weren’t strongly visible. I layered in some stars from an image I’d shot the day before in the desert. Although I wanted the sky to have some visible stars, I didn’t want them to be the focus of the shot so I dropped the contrast significantly.
I would never usually shoot at such a high ISO outside of astro shooting, but being so pushed for time, I couldn’t open my shutter longer than 20 seconds. Fortunately, the added noise was certainly manageable.