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The Refuge (HDR Panorama)
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About | HDR Cookbook | Before-and-After | Making-of | Pics to play with
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Watch the Before-and-After Comparison to see where this photo comes from!
The story of this photo:
This is the church close to the hotel where we spent our last vacation a couple of week ago. I got up early one morning (much to the surprise of my wife - lol) grabbed my pano gear and went there to get the right light. Just as the sun rose, the light was shining straight down center aisle. Perfect! Well, it would have been, but the church was still closed. It seems that god is not an early bird. ;-). When I finally got in, the symmetry in terms of light that I had planned for was gone. But it was still a nice sight. So, I took some panos and vertos. This is the first one.
I just realized that this is my first panorama upload in over a year. All the other stitched images where vertoramas. Well, this proves that I can still photography in horizontal direction. ;-)
Enjoy!
Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.
How it was shot:
> Taken from a tripod with a simple pano adapter [details]
> 5x5 manually bracketed shots (3s - 1/80s exposure time)
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
> Details can be found here
How it was stitched and tonemapped:
> CA reduction and white balance correction in ACR [details]
> Saved the images as TIFFs
> Applied noise reduction (Topaz Denoise) to each of the source images [details]
> Resulting TIFF images were then used as input to Photomatix (Details Enhancer option)
> Stitched the 5 tone-mapped TIFFs using Photoshop
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Perspective correction using the transformation tools
> Fixing some parallax errors manually (no-parallax point must have been inaccurate)
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Saturation layer on the walls (desaturation)
> Levels layer on the walls (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the ceiling (master)
> Levels layer on the ceiling (more contrast)
> Saturation layer for toning down the reds
> Saturation and levels layers on the interior except for the walls and the ceiling (master and more contrast)
> Masked the windows from all the adjustments to preserve the details
> Saturation layer on the windows (master)
> Global saturation and levels layers (fine tuning colors and contrast)
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Watermarking
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Learn these techniques at farbspiel-photo.com - View. Learn. Connect.
- Thanks for viewing!
The Refuge (HDR Panorama)
►►► Explore the world of HDR with me at farbspiel-photo.com - View. Learn. Connect.
______________________________________________________________________
About | HDR Cookbook | Before-and-After | Making-of | Pics to play with
______________________________________________________________________
(Hit 'f' to fave this image)
Watch the Before-and-After Comparison to see where this photo comes from!
The story of this photo:
This is the church close to the hotel where we spent our last vacation a couple of week ago. I got up early one morning (much to the surprise of my wife - lol) grabbed my pano gear and went there to get the right light. Just as the sun rose, the light was shining straight down center aisle. Perfect! Well, it would have been, but the church was still closed. It seems that god is not an early bird. ;-). When I finally got in, the symmetry in terms of light that I had planned for was gone. But it was still a nice sight. So, I took some panos and vertos. This is the first one.
I just realized that this is my first panorama upload in over a year. All the other stitched images where vertoramas. Well, this proves that I can still photography in horizontal direction. ;-)
Enjoy!
Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.
How it was shot:
> Taken from a tripod with a simple pano adapter [details]
> 5x5 manually bracketed shots (3s - 1/80s exposure time)
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
> Details can be found here
How it was stitched and tonemapped:
> CA reduction and white balance correction in ACR [details]
> Saved the images as TIFFs
> Applied noise reduction (Topaz Denoise) to each of the source images [details]
> Resulting TIFF images were then used as input to Photomatix (Details Enhancer option)
> Stitched the 5 tone-mapped TIFFs using Photoshop
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Perspective correction using the transformation tools
> Fixing some parallax errors manually (no-parallax point must have been inaccurate)
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Saturation layer on the walls (desaturation)
> Levels layer on the walls (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the ceiling (master)
> Levels layer on the ceiling (more contrast)
> Saturation layer for toning down the reds
> Saturation and levels layers on the interior except for the walls and the ceiling (master and more contrast)
> Masked the windows from all the adjustments to preserve the details
> Saturation layer on the windows (master)
> Global saturation and levels layers (fine tuning colors and contrast)
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Watermarking
______________________________________________________________________
Learn these techniques at farbspiel-photo.com - View. Learn. Connect.
- Thanks for viewing!