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It's been awhile since I've posted, I've just been so busy with school and other activities. Recently, I've been reading 1984 in english class and I loved the idea of thought crime, where even your own thoughts and your mind is not private any longer. This photo was kind of inspired by that.
Center Furnace on "The Land Between the Lakes" -- Iron produced at Center Furnace was sent to manufacturers to make iron products. William Kelly developed the "air-cooling process" that first made possible the mass production of iron or steel.
The "Kelly process" is the same as the "Bessemer process" may actually have stolen the idea from William Kelly. In 1857, Kelly won patent rights in the United States after a patent dispute with Bessemer, but saw little profit from his invention during his lifetime.
If you look closely in the upper left hand corner of the bowl it reads "Kelly & Co"
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Behind the scenes of day 71
The first image is the raw file. The 2nd image is lightroom adjustments. The third image is the final edit (most processing in photoshop, but then back to lightroom for some more)
I use Photomatix alot but in some situations it just doesn't work. In this comparison you can see how photomatix has introduced a ton of noise (view at max size). To get what I wanted I brought all 5 exposures into Photoshop and painted in all the correct exposures with layer masks. It was a long process but it got me the results I wanted. I just discovered that the same people that make Photomatix have a Lightroom plugin called Merge to 32-bit HDR Plug-in for Lightroom. You export your exposures into one super tiff file with all the info from all 5 exposures. Then it reimports the tiff back into Lightroom where you make all your adjustments in raw. You can see that there is almost no difference between the layered Photoshop file and the Merge to 32 bit HDR. The areas you will see a difference are in the lanterns and Pinocchio which were burned down in Photoshop. All adjustments to the 32 bit HDR where only made with sliders in Lightroom. You can download a free trial at hdrsoft.com/download.html and to purchase is only $29.
I had some people request before/after images, so here you go.
Left Image: 022/365 Track Star Tommy
Camera Info: Canon 7D, Sigma 17-70@23mm, Æ’11.0, 1/60s, ISO 100
Strobist Info: See Setup Shot Here
Canon 430EXII camera left and directly in front of subject about 3 feet high fired into shoot through umbrella about 3 feet away from subject, Canon 430EXII camera left and on back side of subject about 8 feet high fired bare/no diffuser, Canon 430EXII camera right and directly to the side of subject about 4 feet high fired into reflective black back umbrella about 6 feet away from subject . Flashes were triggered with Interfit Strobies.
Right Image: 117/365 Billy Baller
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/5.6, 1/50s, ISO 100
Strobist Info: See setup shot here.
-Canon 430EXII's Camera Left and in front of subject, 1/2 Power, @24mm zoom, about 5 feet high, 4 feet away from subject inside 40 inch Wescott softbox.
-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/4 at 105mm Zoom fired bare, 7 feet high and 10 feet away from subject, fired bare.
-Canon 430EXII Camera left and behind subject, 1/4 at 105mm Zoom fired bare, 7 feet high and 10 feet away from subject, fired bare.
-Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.
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