Slowly I’m getting the hang of this manual blending and luminance masking. Instead of experimenting, I think I actually know what I’m doing :) This is one of the shots I took last time I was in Prague. I’m already planing another trip there, but it wont be for a few more months.
What do you think? Did I use tone-mapping or manual blending here? I’m just curious.. if someone can see the difference in my photos :) Everyone who visit my blog regularly already noticed that I’m experimenting with new techniques of combining photos recently. And so a lot of my recent photos were manually blended in Photoshop, but there were still tone-mapped HDRs in between them. So what do you think? Which one is this? :)
This is a photo from Prague, taken form the Old town hall tower. For me,the clouds were a big surprise, as the only appeared right after the sunset. It was a pleasant surprise :)
During my last visit in Prague, I had nothing to shoot during the day. As the sun was strong and no clouds on the sky, it was not a great time to shoot landscape photos. So instead I took my 70-200mm lens and took photos of people on the Charles bridge. And as this is one of the more permanent performers there, I took a photo of him. Actually I posted a photo of him some long time ago, his really perfect for a B&W shot :)
No HDR today, single photo edited in Photoshop and Lightroom.
This is a scene where HDR really helped a lot. The contrast between the city and the sun behind it was just too big. This was actually taken the day I went shooting with Elia Locardi (if you don’t know ho he is, check out the links page :)). And I don’t know if it was the presence of a great photographer, but the sunset was just perfect. Like it tried to show off :)
Don’t forget to open the full post to see the original exposure of this photo.
Still have a lot of Prague photos which I haven’t processed yet, so here is another one. But there will be many more, as I plan to visit Prague again.
