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This photo really reminds me of a scene in the last Godzilla movie. You know, the one where the soldiers jump down form a plane with the red lights. I should have pasted in a shot of Godzilla in the background :)
This is of course the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest. It’s a single exposure HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine, merged with a second copy created in Lightroom.
For this Monday, I chosen a little more complicated photos from Dubai. Not only did I used two series for this one, but I also replaced parts from the image to get a better symmetry. But lets get started :)
Let’s take a look at the final and the original exposure. You can see I changed the colors a lot, and also the crop and the distortion.
Finished photo
Original photoI started as always in Lightroom. I used two series with the same settings, but one focused on the city in the background and one on the foreground concrete. I did this so I had both in focus. Just stepping down the aperture would not work, as this was an extreme DOF. I corrected the lens distortion and synced the settings to all the exposures. I left the corner as it is, as I didn’t want to crop that much away, and I knew I could fill that in in Photoshop.
All exposures
Lightroom editFrom here I exported them all and merged both series in Oloneo Photoengine. I used the same settings for both, so I can easily blend them together later. AFter that I continued in Photoshop (layers numbered from bottom up):
1. Oloneo Photoengine result, exposures focused on the foreground.
2. Copy of the left part of the first layer, flipped and then manually painted into the image, to create a better symmetry, but still keeping a different texture, so it’s not so obvious :)
3. Oloneo Photoengine results, exposures focused on the background. Masked out the whole foreground concrete from it.
4. Corrected the sky using content aware fill.
5. Corrected the highlights using the -1EV exposure.
6. Still few more highlights to correct from the -2EV exposure.
7. Color Efex Skylight filter, to get more color into the photo.
8. Color Efex Detail Extractor, to get more detail in the foreground, and a little bit in the city.
9. Noise reduction using Imagenomic noiseware.
10. Color Efex Cross processing, to shift the color of the city more towards the blue.
11. More contrast to the city.
12. A little bit more of retouching, as there appeared a little glow around the foreground. I just used the Clone stamp tool to darken it a little down.
Oloneo merge
Photoshop editAnd that’s all I did with this image. To find out more on how I edit, check out the guides and before after categories on this blog, or check out my video tutorial series here:
A lot of you visited this post because this photo was stolen. For more about that, please visit my latest update here https://www.hdrshooter.com/2016/01/18/stolen-photo-update/
It’s quite tough to choose a new photo to edit, after a month I haven’t taken any new (landscape) photos. So I’ve been looking through the Lightroom catalogue, to choose something I haven’t posted before. And this one I chosen is taken from the Dubai Mall in Dubai. To be specific, from a restaurant balcony :)
This is a HDR from 3 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.
I’m not really sure why there was a crane in the middle of Zurich. I should have probably stopped and read the description under it, but I rather spend my time taking more photos :) Maybe next time.
This is a HDR from 4 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.
Black Friday is really a great day to get the software you are still missing for you editing. Not so great for me, as I already own all of them, but all these discount could be great for you :) And since there are really many of them, I will list them in this post.
Let’s start with tonemappig software. Oloneo Photoengine is currently my favourite. It’s fast, easy to use and creates great results. You can find more about it in my review. Until December 9th, it’s 40% off with the coupon code AUTUMN2014EU56. That’s 89 USD instead of 149.
Secondly, the most used tonemapping sofware, and also the most versatile. You can see my review of Photomatix Pro here. Until the December 1st, you can use the code BLF2014 to get 25% off, that’s 74USD instead of 99.
Get it from Photomatix website.
Topaz plugins is a huge collection of different editing plugins for Photoshop, and you can find my review of the most well known Topaz Adjust here. There are having a 40% off sale on their whole plugins bundle, where they sell it for 249USD instead of 429. The discount code is BLACKFRIDAY2014 and is valid until December 1st.
Imagenomic NoiswareImagenominc is having a sale on all of their plugins, but my favorite is the Noiseware one. For me it’s the best noise reduction for Photoshop, and you can see my review here. Until December 1st, you can use the code BF2014 to get a 30% discount.
Get it from Imagenomic website
Another set of Photoshop plugins you can get much chaper today, are all the ones from Onone software. You can get most of them 50% off until December 2nd. No code required.
Trey Ratcliff tutorialsSo it’s not just software, Trey Ratcliff is also having a big sale on all his tutorials, ebooks and presets. You can get 35% off until December 1st. No coupon code requires.
Get it from Stuckincusotms store.
My friend Jimmy McIntyre is also having a Black Friday sale for his tutorials, and using the code BlackFriday you can get 20% off from the normal price.
If you are looking for a good place for a photo portfolio, how about one of the best Smugmug. Until November 29th, all new customers can get 40% off from the price of the account. You can find my review of Smugmug here.
Get it here on the Smugmug website.
And don’t forget my sale, which is of course still active, and you can use the code BFFORTYOFF to get 40% from the price of my video tutorials. Get it here.
