Ethnographic Museum – Budapest, Hungary (HDR Vertorama)

The story of this photo

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I just came back from a short vacation today. As I came back, I decided to finally finish this image. Somehow, I was not happy with it before I left. So I decided to let it rest. When I looked at it today, there was not much I could change. So, I figured it was finished. Maybe I am too hard on myself here. Judge for yourself. By the way, I wrote about letting your images rest in my latest HDR Cookbook recipe about “Why you need an artistic workflow”. Take a look!

This images was shot in the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest. It was a hot and sunny day, and everyone was either taking a nice bath or they were visiting the parliament building right across the street. So, I was virtually alone.

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How it was shot

• Taken handheld [details]
• 5×3 autobracketed shots (three exposures each with 0, -2, +2 EV)
• Camera: Nikon D7000
• Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
• Details can be found here

How it was stitched and tonemapped

• Created two additional exposures in ACR (+4EV and -4EV) to preserve highlights and shadows [details]
• Saved the images as TIFs
• Applied noise reduction (Topaz Denoise) to each of the source images [details]
• Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
• Stitched the 5 tone-mapped TIFs using Photoshop

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 Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
• Saturation layer on the ceiling (desaturation)
• Saturation layer on the painting (master)
• Curves layer on the painting (more contrast)
• Saturation layer on the golden ornaments (master)
• Curves layer on the golden ornaments (more contrast)
• Saturation layer on the pillars (desaturation)
• Saturation layer on the gray part of the floor (desaturation)
• Curves layer on the floor (more contrast)
• Global saturation and levels layers (fine tuning colors and contrast)
• Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
• Watermarking [details]

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