Gert van Duinen
Diesel Power
Larger on dark background | My favorite shots
Location: province of Drenthe, the Netherlands
Exposure: 3 brackets of -2 Ev, +/-0 Ev and +2 Ev at f/2.8, securely mounted on a tripod
Technique: HDR tone mapping and PS post-processing.
Two copies of the original layer were used for resp. selective sharpening and selective noise removal. Custom Curve, Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustment layers are being used to enhance global tones and contrast. Removing halos was a darn task and turned out to be the time killer here. Tone mapping often causes unrealistic halos. The halo around the red-brownish pile of Moor unrealistically brightened a large portion of the sky.
This halo was removed by creating an extra, slightly adjusted, Levels layer with a black & white gradient applied to its corresponding mask. Finally with a large, 5% opacity, soft-edged brush I painted 'out' the darkest parts in the upper-left areas to compensate the 'anti-halo' effect on the other sides in the sky.
Diesel Power
Larger on dark background | My favorite shots
Location: province of Drenthe, the Netherlands
Exposure: 3 brackets of -2 Ev, +/-0 Ev and +2 Ev at f/2.8, securely mounted on a tripod
Technique: HDR tone mapping and PS post-processing.
Two copies of the original layer were used for resp. selective sharpening and selective noise removal. Custom Curve, Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustment layers are being used to enhance global tones and contrast. Removing halos was a darn task and turned out to be the time killer here. Tone mapping often causes unrealistic halos. The halo around the red-brownish pile of Moor unrealistically brightened a large portion of the sky.
This halo was removed by creating an extra, slightly adjusted, Levels layer with a black & white gradient applied to its corresponding mask. Finally with a large, 5% opacity, soft-edged brush I painted 'out' the darkest parts in the upper-left areas to compensate the 'anti-halo' effect on the other sides in the sky.