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Very thought provoking.Many might find this a boring photo. There's something about the circles that drew me to take the photo
Who eats like this? The crumbs suggest there was toast, but the beans remain untouched. Beans and toast, but eaten separately? This is crazy. And then there's the ketchup, it looks relatively untouched.0 -
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This may be a silly question but how do you get the effect of the rays of light coming from behind the building?0 -
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Mike Litoris wrote: »I think Judge uses multiple exposures. One might be a long exposure? I could be totally wrong though!! He posted some stuff on his technique a while ago. It's a great effect all the same.
I went and found it for anyone else curious. Sounds like a lot of work
Great photo Judge (again)!Thanks to both of you for your very kind comments.
You've probably guessed that the black and white pictures I've been posting recently have undergone very significant post-processing – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects (bar removing some distracting elements like poles or wires) but the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and to smooth out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, color range selection and luminosity masks. The picture of Fitzwilton House has approximately 100 individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
Metric Tensor – as a novice I hope the above doesn't scare you off! We were all novices at some time. There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).0 -
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This may be a silly question but how do you get the effect of the rays of light coming from behind the building?
Sorry, only saw this now - I think the replies from the others cover everything. The streaks are caused by a long exposure (5-6 minutes) on the sky but I blended the shot with a faster exposure to get rid of some unwanted movement in the trees.
Nice one, especially the toning. Next time I'm in Cork, I'm determined to get down to Turner's Cross to have a crack at a few shots of that church myself; it's probably one of the best examples of modern architecture in the country.0 -
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How do you get to this walkway Wailin?
I have attached a screenshot of the start of the walk where the boardwalk begins after about 1.5 km (the black route, car is parked at P). You can see the crossroads upper right where Glenmalure lodge is to give you some bearings? It's a very nice walk and you can head all the way to Lugnaquilla if you've the energy.
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