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Portmarnock Sunrise
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My first posts taken with my shiny new 40D. HDR’d them manually in Photoshop. Photomatix just couldn’t quite get the result i wanted so i just used masks and painted black into various parts of the 3 exposures.
Pic #1 is WOW… another ‘Planet Mars’ looking landscape. Pretty decent conversions too considering they were done manually.
I can’t view the Exif data. Any chance you could post?
Sure thing. The top one consists of:
1) 3.2 seconds, F14, ISO 100
2) 12 seconds, F14, ISO 100
3) 32 seconds, F14, ISO 100The bottom one contains:
1) 1.6 seconds, F16, ISO 100
2) 6.2 seconds, F16, ISO 100
3) 25 seconds, F16, ISO 100All taken with the Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF-S 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 (the old one) at a focal length of 21mm (33.6mm Full Frame equivalent)
The reason it’s 21mm and not 18mm is because of the filter case I had attached as well as a polarising filter behind that. In the filter case i had a graduated ND. So to avoid seeing the corners of the filter thingy i had to zoom in a teency bit :DDid u use bracketing on the 40D for your exposures or did u do them manually?
Also… manual HDR via layers… anyone know of a tutorial online anywhere? (Am always looking for good info)
I used the cameras auto bracketing function and under and over exposed by 2 stops for the brackets.
as for the editing twoz fairly simple. You open up the 3 exposures (or more depending on how many you use), i had 3 so i opened them up and then combined them all into one image, i.e. one image to work on but containing all 3 images in seperate layers. then i added layer masks to all of them and painted black into the parts that weren’t needed. the best way to do this is to stack the layers from the brightest at the top to the darkest at the bottom. so you paint black over the sky on the +exposure image and the nicely exposed sky from the darker layer below shows through. I lower the opacity of the brush down to around 10 or 20% so the effect is smoother. If you make a mistake just paint white back over the mask and ta-da the image comes back. If you experiment and mess about with different opacities eventually you’ll get a fair idea of how to do it. If not there’s always photomatix :D
A quick google search turned up this tutorial, pretty much the same as what i did. hope tis helpful
Thanks for this sancho – could help me dramatically – although It means even more time in front of a pc!
gary
Congrats, Number one is a stunning image and number two is bad either.
Dave.
I lived in Portmarnock for 27 years and it never looked like this when i was growing up there:-)
Great shots, cant pick a favorite, both super, very well done to you…
Martin
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