Photoshop world has come and gone and it was outstanding, as usual. I love the energy, seeing old friends, making new friends and simply soaking up all the creativity of my fellow instructors. I had hoped to blog throughout the event but, well, life simply got in the way. I’ve been working non-stop the last few weeks preparing lessons, getting submissions sent out and generally doing catch up work in the office and my shutter finger was getting pretty twitchy so, I headed out to shoot on Tuesday to get my creative juices flowing for the rest of the week. What better way to push myself than to do an HDR…not just any HDR but, a pano HDR which consisted of 8 frames with a bracket of seven images per shot. It was quite a feat for my computer to crunch the numbers and make an image out of all that information but, it did the job thanks to good shooting technique and Photomatix Pro the result is pretty cool…
Here’s how I did it…
-I set up my tripod and leveled it, mounted my camera in vertical with the lens set to 50mm, dialed in a seven stop bracket and click, pan with a slight overlap…click, repeat six more times to cover the entire scene and processed each seven stop bracket in Photomatix then opened the images in Photoshop and processed the pano. A few finishing touches using High Pass and a curves adjustment layer to darken the image slightly and the end result was just what I had hoped for.
Image created with Nikon D3S, AF-S 24-70mm on Lexar digital Media
