A Room with a View – Bebenhausen Abbey, Germany (HDR)

A Room with a View - Bebenhausen Abbey, Germany (HDR)

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The story of this photo:
Until a few days ago, I guess I was the last human being that had no Facebook account. But now I have been assimilated. Resistance was futile. My mental distinctiveness was added to that of Facebook. From this time forward, I will service the collective… or something like that. I will have to look that up again in the Facebook TOS

If you go to my farbspiel – photography page, you will get updates whenever something happens in my little universe. That is, whenever I upload a photo to flickr, publish a new recipe in my HDR Cookbook, post a video on my YouTube site, go to the toilet, have to sneeze, or do anything equally important, you will be the first to know, maybe even before I know it. That is, of course, if you happen to like the page enough to ‘Like’ it. I just wonder, is there actually a difference between liking and ‘Liking’ something? I guess I will find out, right?

You may also want go to my new SmugMug site to see what is happening there.

Whatever you do, enjoy yourself! I hope, I’ll see you on Facebook.

Success story:
> This photo is/was featured in the The Top30 HDR Images in June 2011 on hdrlabs.com.

Take a look at my “HDR Cookbook”! It contains some more information on my techniques.

How it was shot:
> Handheld [details]
> Three exposures (0, -2, +2 EV) autobracketed
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here

How it was tonemapped:
> Preparation: developed the raw files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> Created two additional exposures in ACR (+4EV and -4EV) to preserve highlights and shadows [details]
> Applied noise reduction (Topaz Denoise) to each of the source images
> Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
> Tone-mapping: Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)

How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details
> Topaz Denoise on the entire image [details]
> Curves layer on the floor (more contrast)
> Photo filter layer (blue) on the blue parts of the floor to get back some of the color
> Saturation layer on the red parts of the floor (reds)
> Curves layer on the walls (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the walls (yellows)
> Saturation layer on the ornaments on the ceiling (desaturation)
> Levels layer on the outside (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the outside (master)
> Global saturation layer (master)
> Global levels layer (more contrast, brightness)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Watermarking [details]

Any comments, feedback or criticisms are highly welcome! Thanks for viewing!

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