HDR Before-Middle-After and Google+
June 30th, 2011
Sorry it’s been a while. Work again started getting in the way… But here I am!
Before/Middle/After – The Red Chair
A friend of mine the other day asked if I could show him what a Before, Middle, and After image looks like in my HDR workflow.
And for those that would like to know how I do this, in a nutshell is:
- Take 3 exposures –2 0 +2 EV
- Import, organize, clean up in Lightroom 3
- Export to Photomatix
- Tone Map in Photomatix and export out as a .tiff
- Import 3 exposures plus the tonemap .tiff into Photoshop
- Layer together, and put the tonemap on top.
- Using a layer mask, I paint back in any detail or light that I want in my image.
- Apply certain Photoshop filters for color, noise reduction, etc.
- Finish it all off with an Unsharp Mask, and save!
So here are the images:
Before:
Middle (tonemap):
After:
Pretty cool, eh?
I’ll try and show more of these as time goes on. Sadly, I normally delete the tonemap image after I’m done with it.
Google+
So a good friend of mine was able to get me into Google+. So if you’d like to follow me there, just type my name in. Or follow this link!