Erroba
Sunset at the train bridges, Mechelen, Belgium :: HDR
Best viewed in LARGE (Contacts only, sorry).
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If you intend to use any of my pictures, for any usage, you need to contact me first.
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About
2 of the 3 trainbridges that go over the canal just before you arrive at Mechelen station when coming from the south. This bridges are called 'Vierendeelbruggen' after Athur Vierendeel.
Since the beginning of this year I'm carrying all my photography equipment to and from work each day, I really felt (well I'm sure) that I missed out on quite a lot fantastic skies last year.
I always wanted to shoot these bridges with a good sunset and last tuesday I finally got lucky, as I arrived in Mechelen with the train and walked to my car I knew I just had to snap this, so I climbed up there via the secret passway (hehe) and crossed the bridge on foot, crossed over a few tracks to get to this place, perfect timing it seemed, I spent a little too much time I guess, just after I had taken my last shot, I saw some official dude wearing a fluo coat walking towards me (still about 200meters from me), time to pack my stuff and go, jump in the car and drive home ;)
It's actually quite exciting shooting like that, well I didn't actually passed a forbidden sign or something, but it is dangerous near the tracks and most likely they don't like you on the property or it's indeed illegal, gee and I'm posting the evidence ;)
The shot
Standard 3 exposures HDR [-2,0,+2EV] in RAW/ISO100 at f/11 using the Sigma 10-20mm lens, on a tripod.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using the detail enhancer.
Photoshop
° Shadow and highlights.
° Desaturation of the foreground using a gradient mask in the adjustment layer.
° More blue saturation and less lightness to deepen the blues.
° Extra red and orange saturation in the sky ( again a gradient in the mask )
° Noise reduction in the sky, this time I produced a mask from the -2EV shot which
was almost black in the right places, a little Levels to pump that up, and a
few manual touch ups with a brush and there is the perfect mask in no time.
° High pass sharpening ( See here for description )
Music
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You (Live @ Letterman)
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
Sunset at the train bridges, Mechelen, Belgium :: HDR
Best viewed in LARGE (Contacts only, sorry).
.
All my images are copyrighted.
If you intend to use any of my pictures, for any usage, you need to contact me first.
Thank you.
.
About
2 of the 3 trainbridges that go over the canal just before you arrive at Mechelen station when coming from the south. This bridges are called 'Vierendeelbruggen' after Athur Vierendeel.
Since the beginning of this year I'm carrying all my photography equipment to and from work each day, I really felt (well I'm sure) that I missed out on quite a lot fantastic skies last year.
I always wanted to shoot these bridges with a good sunset and last tuesday I finally got lucky, as I arrived in Mechelen with the train and walked to my car I knew I just had to snap this, so I climbed up there via the secret passway (hehe) and crossed the bridge on foot, crossed over a few tracks to get to this place, perfect timing it seemed, I spent a little too much time I guess, just after I had taken my last shot, I saw some official dude wearing a fluo coat walking towards me (still about 200meters from me), time to pack my stuff and go, jump in the car and drive home ;)
It's actually quite exciting shooting like that, well I didn't actually passed a forbidden sign or something, but it is dangerous near the tracks and most likely they don't like you on the property or it's indeed illegal, gee and I'm posting the evidence ;)
The shot
Standard 3 exposures HDR [-2,0,+2EV] in RAW/ISO100 at f/11 using the Sigma 10-20mm lens, on a tripod.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using the detail enhancer.
Photoshop
° Shadow and highlights.
° Desaturation of the foreground using a gradient mask in the adjustment layer.
° More blue saturation and less lightness to deepen the blues.
° Extra red and orange saturation in the sky ( again a gradient in the mask )
° Noise reduction in the sky, this time I produced a mask from the -2EV shot which
was almost black in the right places, a little Levels to pump that up, and a
few manual touch ups with a brush and there is the perfect mask in no time.
° High pass sharpening ( See here for description )
Music
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You (Live @ Letterman)
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.