Jimmy McIntyre - Editor HDR One Magazine
Candles at Petra
For the full article, technical info and a before/after comparison, see my blog: www.throughstrangelenses.com/2013/12/11/candles-at-petra/
-Today’s Photo – Petra By Night-
Using the same technique I used in my Remove Tourists (goo.gl/uzshtR) tutorial, I layered all six base images into Photoshop and began to mask through certain areas. The final image still had the odd tourist here and there, but some cloning and reconstruction using parts from separate compositions helped to construct a tourist free shot.
Basic colour corrections were first done in ACR and then a few slight Color Balance layers got the image to where I wanted it to be. I layered in some stars from a shot from Wadi Rum, and like my last Petra shot, I didn’t want the sky to be too striking so I lowered the contrast a touch.
I gently layered in details from the blown out candles using 3 lower exposures. Using luminosity masks I painted in the brightest of the 3 exposures first, at a low opacity, and did the same with the other two, so that the transition between exposures was subtle.
I completely shifted the balance of light using Nik Color Efex’s Darken/Lighten Centre filter. By applying this selectively I illuminated the front of the building and took some of the glaze from the candles, which needed no extra emphasis. I also added a vignette which too emphasis away from the sides of the image which don’t hold anything of compositional value.
I then added a Glamour Glow layer from Color Efex which I painted in at varying opacity in the image.
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Candles at Petra
For the full article, technical info and a before/after comparison, see my blog: www.throughstrangelenses.com/2013/12/11/candles-at-petra/
-Today’s Photo – Petra By Night-
Using the same technique I used in my Remove Tourists (goo.gl/uzshtR) tutorial, I layered all six base images into Photoshop and began to mask through certain areas. The final image still had the odd tourist here and there, but some cloning and reconstruction using parts from separate compositions helped to construct a tourist free shot.
Basic colour corrections were first done in ACR and then a few slight Color Balance layers got the image to where I wanted it to be. I layered in some stars from a shot from Wadi Rum, and like my last Petra shot, I didn’t want the sky to be too striking so I lowered the contrast a touch.
I gently layered in details from the blown out candles using 3 lower exposures. Using luminosity masks I painted in the brightest of the 3 exposures first, at a low opacity, and did the same with the other two, so that the transition between exposures was subtle.
I completely shifted the balance of light using Nik Color Efex’s Darken/Lighten Centre filter. By applying this selectively I illuminated the front of the building and took some of the glaze from the candles, which needed no extra emphasis. I also added a vignette which too emphasis away from the sides of the image which don’t hold anything of compositional value.
I then added a Glamour Glow layer from Color Efex which I painted in at varying opacity in the image.
Learn Post-Processing:
Free 1.7gb Digital Blending megapack - goo.gl/Q5pCrt
- Learn Post-Processing with me -