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HDR Photography Workflow: Part 3 of 3 / SML Tutorials by See-ming Lee

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Part 3 of 3

Then I do the same for the water area. Note that at this point this image is very similar to by 0EV capture—no surprises there. This was what I saw when I photographed this photo. I do HDR not for effect, but just so that I can have some details on the shadow area.

At this point you see that really there is not much color to this scene. In fact, they stand to distract the overall image, so I removed it. Here since I have been working in Lab mode I just quickly removed the color channels or just removed the color saturation. If I work with images filled with color I usually would use the channel mixer in RGB mode or use the black and white tweaking modules inside Lightroom. But as you can see there is not much color in this image to start with so I can simply just remove the color saturation.

After importing back into Lightroom, I tweak things further as I feel that I can still get some more details in the shadow area. If I were inside Photoshop I would do a image-wide shadows/highlights tweak but since Lightroom version 4 there is this new Clarity parameter which works very well in manipulating local contrast so I used it.

And that’s it. But remember, every single image is different. This is not a recipes. There are no rules. Now go have some fun!

Cheers.

# Full video

+ vimeo.com/71165098

+ youtube.com/watch?v=0N9RWxVO5gw

# Presentation PDF

+ www.slideshare.net/seeminglee/hdr-process002

# Final photo

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9370400032/

# Notes

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How to maintain a clutter-free Gmail Inbox: Examples / 2009-11-01 / SML Tutorials by See-ming Lee

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SML Pro Blog: How to use Gmail filters to maintain sanity with social media

One of the unfortunate side-effects when you belong to many social networks and subscribe to many listserv is the insane amount of emails you get on a daily basis. In this tutorial, I will illustrate how you can track these activities at your own pace and keeping your inbox tidy and maintaining an overall sanity in your very active technologically sound life. Read full article >

HDR Photography Workflow: Part 2 of 3 / SML Tutorial by See-ming Lee

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Part 2 of 3

By keeping everything in 16-bit color space we can manipulate the image further once we have all our materials together.

Most strange looking HDR images found on the web is a result of people exporting to JPEGs after this. But this image was not what I had in mind when I looked at the landscape, so let’s work on this further.

To further reveal details in the shadow, I created a curve which targets only the shadow area. Shown here in the layer blending options you can see that I have targeted the curve adjustment to only affect a graduated area. If I do not do this, the sunlight would have been over-exposed again.

Also note that I am using the Lab color mode inside Photoshop. This allows me to work with the luminance, or lightness, separated from the color a/b channels.

After I am satisfied with the shadow overall contrast, I work with the overall luminance contrast for the overall image. Obviously the curve shown here is specific to this image.

Now I created a layer mask with a basic gradient fill so I can use the curve to adjust the tonal contrast for the sky.