The Marble Hall – Ludwigsburg, Germany (HDR)

The Marble Hall - Ludwigsburg, Germany (HDR)

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Check out the Dynamic Before-and-After of this image to see a direct pomparison between the original single exposure and the final HDR image.

The story of this photo:
This is the marble hall (Marmorsaal) in the Ludwigsburg Palace in Germany. Ludwigsburg Palace is one of the biggest baroque palaces in Germany. In this hall, the king received his visitors.

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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 and merged to get and HDR
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here

The Marble Hall – Pics to play with: Download the full-resolution source files of this image and test your processing skills

How it was tonemapped:
> Preparation: developed the raw files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> 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
> Slight perspective correction and cropping
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise on the entire image [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Saturation layer on the white marble walls (desaturation)
> Saturation layer on the ceiling (master)
> Saturation layer on the chandeliers (yellows)
> Global saturation layer (master)
> Global levels layer (more contrast)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Watermarking

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

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