Saturday, May 12, 2012

HDR Field Trip: Aiken Railroad Depot

Aiken Depot Railroad Cross (Express)
Aiken, SC Railroad Depot RR Crossing sign in HDR

Workflow: 3 exposure (-2...0...+2) > Photomatix Pro (Express Custom Setting NOT Tone-mapped) > Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (created a layer) > Topaz DeNoise(Jepg Strong)> Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (Watermarking & Saved as Jpg.)
While helping my father-in-law teach an High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography class, I was able to capture a few images myself. We decided to get to the Aiken Train Depot early to take advantage of the low light desired for HDR. As we were about to wrap up, I shot this image as the sun began peeking through the trees.

Note the "Rule of Thirds" in full effect here... as is a nice little sun burst through the tree limbs/leaves. I like the image so much initially after the HDR, I didn't do much post processing. The above image is how it came out of Photomatix Pro. Below, are the two of the same image that I took a little further in the post-processing just to see what I could get. I am pretty happy with all of them and wanted to share a little of my workflow on how they came to be. 


Aiken Depot Railroad Cross (BuzVersion)
Aiken, SC Railroad Depot RR Crossing sign in HDR
Workflow: 3 exposure (-2...0...+2) > Photomatix Pro (Express Custom Setting NOT Tone-mapped) > Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (created a duplicate layer) > Topaz DeNoise(Jepg Strong) >Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (Created duplicate layer) > Topaz Simplify 3 (BuzSim Custom) > Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (Watermarking & Saved as Jpg.)

Aiken Depot Railroad Cross (NikVersion)
Aiken, SC Railroad Depot RR Crossing sign in HDR
Workflow: 3 exposure (-2...0...+2) > Photomatix Pro (Express Custom Setting NOT Tone-mapped) > Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (created a duplicate layer) > Topaz DeNoise(Jepg Strong) >Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (Created duplicate layer) > Nik Color Efex Pro 4 (Paper-toner) > Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (Watermarking & Saved as Jpg.)

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Thanks for looking!

Be Great,
Jimmy Batte

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