The Ingress (HDR Vertorama)
The story of this photo:
View the Before-and-After Comparison to see where this photo comes from!
I have been spending too much time on Google+ and too little time on flickr lately. Therefore, I’ve also not been commenting on your work as I used to and as I should. Sorry for that! But seeing Google+ come to live and grow right from the beginning has been exciting. There is a strong and very active photography community on G+ that is growing every single day. Just as a comparison, my 7 week old facebook page now has around 300 ‘followers’. My 3 week old Google+ profile has 3000. Crazy!!!
Speaking of ‘followers’, I know that people who express interest in a person’s page on any social website are commonly called ‘followers’ or ‘fans’. However, I don’t like that term. I think that term degrades those people to a mere mass of individuals whose primary property is ‘being a fan of XYZ’ – a mere number that one tries to increase to get more exposure. I cherish every one of you who is interested in what I do, although it is getting increasingly difficult to memorize each one by the first name. 😉
Watch the “High-definition Making of…” video (choose the 1080p version for full details) to see where this photo comes from
Anyway, this HDR vertorama does not depict a church as most of the earlier uploads of that type. Although, one may argue that it is kind of a temple too – a temple of the modern business world. However, I doubt that in 500 years from now, masses of people will be visiting it and look at its interior in awe. 🙂
Enjoy!
How it was shot:
- Taken handheld [details]
- 4×3 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
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How it was stitched and tonemapped:
- Created 4 tone-mapped images directly from the RAW files using Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)
- Created two additional exposures in ACR (+4EV and -4EV) to preserve highlights and shadows [details]
- Saved the images as 16bit 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 4 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 marble floor (desaturation)
- Curves layer on the marble floor (more contrast)
- Saturation layer on the white elements (desaturation)
- Levels layer on the white elements (more contrast)
- Saturation layer on the glass structure (master)
- Photo filter layer on the glass structure (cyan)
- Curves layer on the glass structure (more contrast)
- Saturation layer on the glass roof (master)
- Photo filter layer on the glass roof (blue)
- Saturation layer on the floor mats (master)
- Curves and Levels layer on the red brick walls (more contrast)
- Saturation layer on the red brick walls (master)
- Saturation layer on the metal rails (desaturation)
- Global saturation and levels layers (fine-tuning colors and contrast)
- Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
- Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
- Watermarking [details]
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