Gert van Duinen
Cheerful Overcast
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Location: Valthe - Drenthe - the Netherlands.
Exposure: 2 brackets of +/-0 Ev and +2 Ev at f/8, mounted on a Manfrotto 190.
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Description: This shot was taken this afternoon in a village called Valthe in the province Drenthe. Valthe is rich of prehistoric treasures like very large rocks called Hunebedden. Hunebedden were used as sepulcher cellars by occupants of Drenthe approx. 5000 years ago, which they used to bury heir deceased ones.
Of course I was distracted by this beautiful landscape, so I didn't take much pictures of these prehistoric sepulchers and tombstones this afternoon. But I will in later posts, I promise :)
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Technique: HDR Tone Mapping & PS color and contrast adjustments.
Instead of my usual approach of tonemapping three exposures with a 2-stops difference each - which is in most cases even not enough for best results - this time I used just two: +-0 Ev and +2 Ev. The underexposed -2 Ev version didn't add anything useful to the image which I had in mind.
Selective sharpening was done with a masked High Pass layer. Usually I combine a High Pass filter with the Unsharp Mask to get the results I'm after, but this time only the High Pass was enough. A Hue/Saturation layer was used to achieve overall toning by adjusting the blue, yellow and cyan values. The final temperature was created by slightly tweaking both the White and Neutral areas in a Selective Color layer, which is almost the same - if not better - then adjusting the white point - temperature - in your RAW converter. Hope this helps at least someone.
Cheerful Overcast
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Location: Valthe - Drenthe - the Netherlands.
Exposure: 2 brackets of +/-0 Ev and +2 Ev at f/8, mounted on a Manfrotto 190.
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Description: This shot was taken this afternoon in a village called Valthe in the province Drenthe. Valthe is rich of prehistoric treasures like very large rocks called Hunebedden. Hunebedden were used as sepulcher cellars by occupants of Drenthe approx. 5000 years ago, which they used to bury heir deceased ones.
Of course I was distracted by this beautiful landscape, so I didn't take much pictures of these prehistoric sepulchers and tombstones this afternoon. But I will in later posts, I promise :)
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Technique: HDR Tone Mapping & PS color and contrast adjustments.
Instead of my usual approach of tonemapping three exposures with a 2-stops difference each - which is in most cases even not enough for best results - this time I used just two: +-0 Ev and +2 Ev. The underexposed -2 Ev version didn't add anything useful to the image which I had in mind.
Selective sharpening was done with a masked High Pass layer. Usually I combine a High Pass filter with the Unsharp Mask to get the results I'm after, but this time only the High Pass was enough. A Hue/Saturation layer was used to achieve overall toning by adjusting the blue, yellow and cyan values. The final temperature was created by slightly tweaking both the White and Neutral areas in a Selective Color layer, which is almost the same - if not better - then adjusting the white point - temperature - in your RAW converter. Hope this helps at least someone.