Andy's fault

Antonio Correia

Because Andy posted such a beautiful shot and he said that

it's one raw file, developed in three exposures, and blended in Photoshop.

I tried myself something similar.

My 1.st work is the picture on the left.
Thank you Andy for the little and important tip. :thumb

Andy

retro

great result Antonio, myself i find i get a lot better results from Photomatix http://www.hdrsoft.com/ or blending the exposures manually with masks then photoshops hdri workflow ...but that's me...wonderful shot!

Antonio Correia

Thank you retro.
But I noticed that there is a wronge crop at the right side of the photo.
As a matter of fact this photo is the "merge " of 3 others and I had to distort it a little at the end of the treatment.
I will not erase the wrongly cropped photo and I post here the rightly cropped one as final version.

USAIR

Antonio very nice nightshot.
And the 2nd crop does seem to work better.

I am not very good at cropping photos.
Do you have any on line links or tutes to read up on this ?

Thanks
Fred

Antonio Correia

Thank you for your comment.
How do I crop ?
In Photoshop and with my own sensibility.
I've never read about cropping. I just read about composition using my feelings.


You do have nice pictures ... Well copped ...

thumb

USAIR

I guess what I meant was cropping for a better composition...
it's always been intresting how one person crops a photo and another person crops the same photo differently.

I try not to crop at all but sometimes you have to.

Thanks
Fred

Dee

Cropping
First of all, that was a great blending effort, Antonio! I usually use the shadow/highlight adjustment, then curves, then layers, etc. to get similar effects. Maybe I work too hard?

About cropping -- that's a fascinating subject. I think USAIR should post a sample photo in a new thread and call for the rest of us to "crop that photo" and we could all have fun, and learn something too!

ChrisJ

Very nice work, Antonio. Beautiful plaza!

photodoug

Why you've ALWAYS had the ability to do HDR! All you have to do is click your heels three times....

USAIR

Dee wrote:

First of all, that was a great blending effort, Antonio! I usually use the shadow/highlight adjustment, then curves, then layers, etc. to get similar effects. Maybe I work too hard?

About cropping -- that's a fascinating subject. I think USAIR should post a sample photo in a new thread and call for the rest of us to "crop that photo" and we could all have fun, and learn something too!

Good idea Dee here's the link of the thread I started.

Fred