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KanteForce — University Hall HDR BW
Published: 2009-04-02 00:07:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1227; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 39
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Hall in Copenhagen University's Old Main Building, Denmark. Winter 2009.Main problem was LOTS of color noise in the dark areas.
3 RAW Files ->
Each Noise Reduced in PS ->
Exposure Blending in Photomatix to 1 TIFF ->
Noise Reduction in PS ->
New TIFF = EV 0 ->
Made 4 Extras in PS: EV -1, -2, +1 & +2 ->
HDR & Tonemapping in Photomatix ->
PS Work: Noise Reduction, B&W Conversion & Extra Tonal Contrast ->
PS Final Adjustment: Processing had made frame and wall around upper, right painting into large "lakes" and "ripples" of grey. Added noise, used sharpen tool and at last blur tool to make a texture fitting the rest of the pic.
Conversion to B&W to get rid of some of the color noise, and because B&W more and more is getting my fav expression.
Cropping could be done: Balcony in the upper left corner and the lamp in the upper right corner.
BUT I COULDN'T cut away the beautiful ceiling or wall paintings which a cropping would do.
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Comments: 10
Nice work. Most of the light seems to come from outside which is great, so the artificial light seems not to help much and doesn't look good to see so much lamps on.
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An old reply here,sorry - I like the lamps and the glowing. It contrast the room.
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I like some parts of this HDR shot, however I think that in some parts the merging of this images is quite troublesome.
The composition is okay. Though I feel the camera is titled(That tilted sliver of ground under the double doors gives me that feeling)
I think that the portions done around the balcony, stairway wall, chandelier and bottom half of the column post near the door turned out really well. I can see a great amount of detail and contrast in those regions. Those region also have a good spread of tones.
However, the other areas start to get a but murky and busy. Especially on the ceiling and paintings in the right side of the photo, the seem somewhat obscure and covered by something cloudy. The details here as not as crisp and clear.
Other than that, I feel that the focus is good and overall it is a okay shot, but could be improved.
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It is tilted. The point was to get a "corner" perspective like this:
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With the center just above the head of the statue.
You are right about the difference in quality when the left side are compaire to the right side.
The proccessing was hard to the right side because it's the "dark" side: You have to know to tell it, but the main source of light is not the chandeliers but sunlight from windows on the balcony. You can see the angle of the sunlight very clear on the double doors, up to middle of the column, over the statue, the stairway and the left wall.
The "clouds" are the mix of noise suppression and amplifying the tonal contrast.
In general you are right about improvements of the pic. The hard part is the many steps used to make the pic...
Thx for the critique
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Now that you do point it out, I see the light you are talking about. It seems that the parts that the sun really illuminates is I think the parts that stand out the best due to the stronger natural light.
You're welcome ^^
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very nice shot, and seems like you have a lot of skill with ps
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Thx - took a lot of time...
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