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Building an Image: “Memories” deconstructed
Memories Here is “Memories”, deconstructed. I hope you enjoy. First I selected my foreground and background images. Originally I was intending to use a level cracked earth for this one, but it didn’t work with the back ground I had chosen. Images can evolve depending on what I happen to have in stock!
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Building an Image – “The Lair”
My club lecture “Building an Image” deals with my method of working and how my images are created. This snippet shows the building of a recent image and I’ve picked out some key stages, though not all the layers are shown. The working title of this image is “The Lair”. The starting point is a trompe-l’œil. Most of the building is real and three dimensional but the hole in the front is faked. The enticing message “this is a photo-opportunity” means you can’t really walk past it without being tempted to take a shot! The building was shot against a bright sky and didn’t have much light on it, so…
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HDR Photography – Oloneo HDRengine versus Photoshop CS5
It’s quite a while now since I did any comparative work on HDR. I have previously superficially examined Photomatix V3 and Picturenaut. For some time after that, I mostly used Photomatix version 3. I never upgraded to version 4 because, by that time, I had found that Photoshop’s HDR engine was relatively easy to use and worked seamlessly with Lightroom. So, I have tended to migrate gradually away from Photomatix and have been using Photoshop with quite satisfactory results, for example the Media City Panoramas from just a few weeks ago. But now I think I might have found something even better. Oloneo HDRengine I recently downloaded a free 30…
