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Published: 2015-03-01 07:30:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 937; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 7
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Street Art During my recent stay in Melbourne, I had the good fortune and pleasure in meeting up with Dave Porteus The-Egg :iconthe-egg: for a photo-shoot around the back streets and lanes near the Queen Victoria Market. Dave introduced me to the vibrant street art culture for which Melbourne is well known. We visited several alleyways in which big, bold and brash images painted on brick and concrete walls assaulted the eyes with their colourful characters and compositions. In those couple of hours, I learnt more from Dave about street art and how to photograph it and its environments than I could possibly have imagined. Many thanks for such a wonderful shoot, Dave.Dave is a master of HDR and low light photography, two images from our adventure are shown below. This is not the place to give a full blown account of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography; suffice to say that the technique which involves the blending (tone-mapping) of severally images with different exposures allows detail
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Yes - the original shot was an HDR image, Sheri, but the effect is rendered by the solarization technique I describe in the Journal. The original scene was a fairly bland image in grey light, the colours of the artwork enhanced by the HDR treatment, but this technique sort of turns day into night.
Cheers
David
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Sheri - I've now had quite a conversation with LindArtz on this image about using solarization in Photoshop Elements if you are interested.
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Many thanks, Linda. Lots of colour, but not much yellow!!
David
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