Dennis Bishop
09-22-2012, 11:34 PM
This image of an artist painting at an en plein air art festival was taken the same day as the last post (kayaks and sailboat) but several hundred yards farther east along the southern shore of Lake Erie. This is one of only a handful of photos I've shot in the last 10 or 15 years with a person anywhere to be seen, let alone featured. (Permission granted by the artist.)
nine exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals
Nikon D3s, f/22, ISO 2500, zoom lens at 50mm
processing
Photomatix tone mapping to achieve a good histogram
Adobe Camera Raw -- some darkening of highlights, a bit of clarity, and some tweaking of color saturation and luminosity
Select>Color Range . . . to change the color of the clothing of some people on the pier
evicted a water bottle that was on the fold-down part of the easel blocking part of the saucer
Alien Skin Snap Art -- Oil Paint largely masked off artist and painting
Nik Color Efex -- Darken/Lighten Center with the same mask
Curves -- custom lightening layer
Curves -- Lighter preset masked to some extent everywhere but mostly over artist, easel, and painting
Warming Photo Filter adjustment layer (Wow, what a difference . . .)
Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art b&w at Multiply blend mode masked partially off artist and painting
Fractalius -- b&w preset based on Sketch at Multiply blend mode masked partially off artist
gradient vignette partially masked off bottom
nine exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals
Nikon D3s, f/22, ISO 2500, zoom lens at 50mm
processing
Photomatix tone mapping to achieve a good histogram
Adobe Camera Raw -- some darkening of highlights, a bit of clarity, and some tweaking of color saturation and luminosity
Select>Color Range . . . to change the color of the clothing of some people on the pier
evicted a water bottle that was on the fold-down part of the easel blocking part of the saucer
Alien Skin Snap Art -- Oil Paint largely masked off artist and painting
Nik Color Efex -- Darken/Lighten Center with the same mask
Curves -- custom lightening layer
Curves -- Lighter preset masked to some extent everywhere but mostly over artist, easel, and painting
Warming Photo Filter adjustment layer (Wow, what a difference . . .)
Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art b&w at Multiply blend mode masked partially off artist and painting
Fractalius -- b&w preset based on Sketch at Multiply blend mode masked partially off artist
gradient vignette partially masked off bottom