Thursday, 06 November 2008 10:05
Features
HDR1435 -
Nikon D200. Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 10mm
HDR image from 9 RAW files.
Bracketed around 0.8 sec @ f/22.
ISO 100. Spot metered from the boat.
.6 and .9 ND grad filters over the sky.
Processed in Photomatix Pro 2.5, tweaked in Photoshop CS3.
I shot this late in the evening, just before packing up for the evening. I'd imagined a shot like this for a while, but I'd never had the right lighting to pull it off. I jumped down into the harbour and set up on the slippery, and rather quicksand like mud. Balancing the exposure was tricky, I had to use .6 [2 stop] and a .9 [3 stop] ND grad filters, even then the shot wasn't looking how I wanted..
I decided to use my D200's auto exposure bracketing to get a series of shots for a HDR merge when I got home. I set the camera up to fire 9 shots, 1 stop apart.
Back home I loaded the shots into Photomatix Pro to combine the 9 RAW files into a HDRi. I then tonemapped it, and exported it as a 16bit TIFF, which I opened in Photoshop CS3 to tweak and finish the shot. The harsh front light gave quite a bit of flare in the centre of the shot, and showed up alot of sea salt on the front filter. I cloned all this out, ran NeatImage to clean up the noise in the sky, and gave the details a sharpen.I used this shot as for example in an article I wrote for Digital Camera magazine on processing and editing HDR files.
I hope you like it.
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