Expectation Maximization
Hotel Nelson
a walk through Montreal...
must see LARGE on Black
setup and processing (in response to shetha's question): I do have a polarizing filter, but I'm pretty sure I didn't use it here (because I pretty much never do). I think I used a 3 stop ND filter so I could keep the aperture wide open in the middle of the day. Shhh... It's our little secret. Don't tell anyone =D I took 3 bracketed exposures, but there was way too much movement to use multiple exposure-based HDR so I took this one at -2EV (good exposure for the sky) and increased the Fill Light to illuminate the foreground and increased the Recovery to get back some of the highlights from the RAW file that had blown out. Ends up being a similar process to what's usually referred to as single-exposure HDR, since what's really being described there is the tone mapping from the high dynamic range data stored in a single RAW file (while not nearly as high of a dynamic range you can get from multiple-exposures) into something visible on a monitor and storable in an 8-bit JPG. I'm really loving how easy it is to play around with all the most common Photoshop knobs in Lightroom when you don't need to do any local editing.
shout-out to the SetSeeker group which is a very cool forum to learn from other's setups: "We like all kind of photos taken with a previous setup, like lighting, subject selection and arrangement of the objects to be shot. The idea is that the photographer shows to group members its capture and a short description of how it was taken. A second picture as a comment, is a good way to show it, but is not required; just plain English or Spanish will work."
Hotel Nelson
a walk through Montreal...
must see LARGE on Black
setup and processing (in response to shetha's question): I do have a polarizing filter, but I'm pretty sure I didn't use it here (because I pretty much never do). I think I used a 3 stop ND filter so I could keep the aperture wide open in the middle of the day. Shhh... It's our little secret. Don't tell anyone =D I took 3 bracketed exposures, but there was way too much movement to use multiple exposure-based HDR so I took this one at -2EV (good exposure for the sky) and increased the Fill Light to illuminate the foreground and increased the Recovery to get back some of the highlights from the RAW file that had blown out. Ends up being a similar process to what's usually referred to as single-exposure HDR, since what's really being described there is the tone mapping from the high dynamic range data stored in a single RAW file (while not nearly as high of a dynamic range you can get from multiple-exposures) into something visible on a monitor and storable in an 8-bit JPG. I'm really loving how easy it is to play around with all the most common Photoshop knobs in Lightroom when you don't need to do any local editing.
shout-out to the SetSeeker group which is a very cool forum to learn from other's setups: "We like all kind of photos taken with a previous setup, like lighting, subject selection and arrangement of the objects to be shot. The idea is that the photographer shows to group members its capture and a short description of how it was taken. A second picture as a comment, is a good way to show it, but is not required; just plain English or Spanish will work."