St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney :: HDR

Explore Frontpage | 17.01.2009 (many thanks for your support again! :D))

(Cheers to lovely Mary & my great buddy Dave for helping with the screenshot :-))))

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Its Sunday morning here! a beautiful day at 32/33 C for the beach & of coz a great one for the Sunday Church session haha! Hopefully with this shot, my photostream today will be more subtle & family orientated :P rather than the usual adult explicit forum style LOL!

 

To my flickr mates who are not a christian or catholic, please don't feel obliged to comment :) i myself am not one either but simply adore the beautiful artwork & architecture of the church

 

View LARGE On White for the first time! ;)

 

Please do not post any invites from now on :) greatly appreciate the thoughts!

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About

 

St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney

 

The Shot

 

Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) with tripod using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens

 

Photomatix

 

- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option

 

Photoshop

 

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (master) to decrease overall tone

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to decrease the lightness of stone wall

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to adjust the tone of the side ceiling

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'channel mixer' (blues) to enhance the center ceiling

- Applied digital blending of another tonemapped hdr to correct the overblown spotlights

- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer

 

You

 

All comments and constructive criticism are (as always) welcome

 

Music

 

Engima - Sadness

 

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