Posts Tagged ‘pseudo hdr’

The Winter that Wouldn’t End (but did)

Ice and Snow

In Illinois (and other places too), this has been a tough winter, in fact the 9th coldest on record. Besides the cold, there has been a lot of snow and ice as well.

But you don’t need some government climate report to tell you its bad when there is snow on the ground, then the river floods, then the river freezes, and then the river goes back down and freezes again. This is what I’ve tried to capture with the photo above.

Fortunately, despite getting a brief snow dusting 14 April, I think spring might be sneaking it’s way in.

The Legend Lives On

The Legend Lives OnThe Legend Lives On

Harley-Davidson Motorcycles

I was journeying up to Northern Michigan a few days back, and came across this motorcycle at a scenic overlook.

Although I didn’t want to get beat up by a biker, I snapped a few shots.

You might notice the small sunbursts on the bike. I took this photo with my 80-200mm and it naturally creates these effects if the sun is bright enough and reflected off something shiny.

As a rule, I don’t photoshop in things that weren’t there.

Post-Processing

Of course that isn’t to say I don’t do post-processing.

This photo is a pseudo HDR, just one RAW image that has been tonemapped in Photomatix, as opposed to 3 or more.

I pulled the tonemapped file into photoshop and duplicated the original, full color layer.

I then applied a sepia filter on one of the duplicate layers and created a layer mask to bring back the blue highlights on the bike from the color-retained layer.

I’m happy with how it turned out and I think the processing makes the photo more interesting and Harley-Davidson “Legend-esque”.