Don Ritt Photography
Silo Sunset
Continuing on with the agriculture theme, this was one of the last shots I took before the sun set and the light was gone. It's amazing just how dark and quiet everything gets in rural farm country when the sun is gone for the day! At the beginning of the tour I was able the climb up to the top of the silo in this photo and take a few shots from 60' up. This farm has been in the family for several generations and is very precious to them, I hope my photos represent it well...
I used a couple different techniques to achieve the final look. I created additional exposures through the RAW editor in CS5 then used Topaz DeNoise on each exposure followed by adding back some sharpening. The exposures were put in the Photomatix blender and I used the resulting image as my base. Addition single exposures were run through NIK software's HDR Efex 2 then portions were blended/masked into the base image as necessary. Lots of filtering from NIK's Color Efex 3 & 4 were brushed in (especially the polarizer, glamor glow and tonal contrast filters) to add and subtract light and detail where needed. After a couple hours of tinkering I had had enough and this was the result!
Silo Sunset
Continuing on with the agriculture theme, this was one of the last shots I took before the sun set and the light was gone. It's amazing just how dark and quiet everything gets in rural farm country when the sun is gone for the day! At the beginning of the tour I was able the climb up to the top of the silo in this photo and take a few shots from 60' up. This farm has been in the family for several generations and is very precious to them, I hope my photos represent it well...
I used a couple different techniques to achieve the final look. I created additional exposures through the RAW editor in CS5 then used Topaz DeNoise on each exposure followed by adding back some sharpening. The exposures were put in the Photomatix blender and I used the resulting image as my base. Addition single exposures were run through NIK software's HDR Efex 2 then portions were blended/masked into the base image as necessary. Lots of filtering from NIK's Color Efex 3 & 4 were brushed in (especially the polarizer, glamor glow and tonal contrast filters) to add and subtract light and detail where needed. After a couple hours of tinkering I had had enough and this was the result!