Taj Mahal revisited...
Watch it large!
This is one of my most popular pictures on flickr. I took it last year as we went to Taj very early in the morning. This is taken about 15 minutes after sunrise. I recently had it printed poster size to hang it in our living room.
The lab suggested that I use metallic photo paper to print it. It was much more expensive than normal paper and I thought it was going to be a rip off. When I saw the result however I was very very pleased. It had an effect I never imagined possible on print.
I tried to recreate it on screen but all attempts were to no avail. Until recently I read about Dynamic-Photo HDR, a piece of software that can do single photo HDRs.
I processed and tonemapped a single raw file and this is the closest I could get to the print I have and it is an aweful lot closer than adjusting levels and saturation in Photoshop. It is also my first HDR and I am inspired now to revisit a few more pictures of the recent past....;-))
See my other Taj Mahal pictures - including the original - here or look at the complete India set.
Taj Mahal revisited...
Watch it large!
This is one of my most popular pictures on flickr. I took it last year as we went to Taj very early in the morning. This is taken about 15 minutes after sunrise. I recently had it printed poster size to hang it in our living room.
The lab suggested that I use metallic photo paper to print it. It was much more expensive than normal paper and I thought it was going to be a rip off. When I saw the result however I was very very pleased. It had an effect I never imagined possible on print.
I tried to recreate it on screen but all attempts were to no avail. Until recently I read about Dynamic-Photo HDR, a piece of software that can do single photo HDRs.
I processed and tonemapped a single raw file and this is the closest I could get to the print I have and it is an aweful lot closer than adjusting levels and saturation in Photoshop. It is also my first HDR and I am inspired now to revisit a few more pictures of the recent past....;-))
See my other Taj Mahal pictures - including the original - here or look at the complete India set.