I was wandering the old barn today looking for potential subjects to use for my get pushed HDR challenge.
I did one from outside the barn looking into the dark recesses of the barn (will process that one next) but wanted to do a couple more for practice.
I stumbled upon this book, and noticed that the spine of it was really in the dark so decided to see whether HDR would improve the shot.
Well - I did it!
My first HDR using Lightroom and Photoshop. (I have done them before using PSE but it really is not the same).
Thank you, Saxa, for the challenge. I love challenges that push me to do things I would not normally do!
Thank you, Saxa for the fantastic push. @overalvandaan Other than the photo disappearing when I exported it and making me search my hard drive for it - it was a fun experience. (thought it was going to my SD card but it didn't)
I may get a second one done tonight.
I hope this will be an easy one. I want you to do a farm version of the new technique challenge - vanishing point. I am saying farm to try to add a degree of difficulty but hey if time runs out go shot a road near you. Now for me please no playing with lights or water, no h8gh key and I just did a people shot. Please and thank you.
@paul10
I heard that LR is the very best organizing tool out there and works well for exposure and such, but PS is great for composites and creative editing. You can no longer purchase these programs as software since they had a lot of pirating, but now must be purchased as a monthly program. The best deal I could find came as a package - hence the two of them!
The learning curve is steep for both and is taking up a lot of my valuable photo time, but will be worth it in the end, I think!
I'm glad you enjoyed the push and learned something new. This turned out great, such clarity! The HDR in LR is really simple once you've done it. Is there also a HDR possibility in PS? I guess there must be.
@overalvandaan
The program I learned with recommended that I import the photos from LR to PS with the 'edit merge in PS', (you can get a 32 bit file that way) then go back into LR when complete to do final exposure.
(I can't believe I actually understand what I just said - lol!)
I may get a second one done tonight.
I heard that LR is the very best organizing tool out there and works well for exposure and such, but PS is great for composites and creative editing. You can no longer purchase these programs as software since they had a lot of pirating, but now must be purchased as a monthly program. The best deal I could find came as a package - hence the two of them!
The learning curve is steep for both and is taking up a lot of my valuable photo time, but will be worth it in the end, I think!
The program I learned with recommended that I import the photos from LR to PS with the 'edit merge in PS', (you can get a 32 bit file that way) then go back into LR when complete to do final exposure.
(I can't believe I actually understand what I just said - lol!)