LightningPaul

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Barcelona Bows


For a change I posted something more geometric. These bows are located in Barcelona, between the sea and the column of Columbus, in the neighborhood of the famous street Las Ramblas. I was taking the touristic bus, more specific: the blue line. Theses buses are really great and let you visit everything in this great cultural city.



TECH-INFO: while the bus stopped in the traffic I shot a sequence of 5 JPGs, all hand held, each a stop difference. In fact I did that twice. I used the HDR merge function in Photoshop to align and merge them. It only worked with the first sequence. During capturing the second one I moved too much between the images. In Photomatrix I toned mapped the HDR file to get a natural look. Thanks to the HDR technique, the high lights are on the metal are only a thin border while you still can see lots of detail on the bottom side of the bows. Afterwards I enhanced contrast of the bows and sky separately in Photoshop using the curves tool and selective color tool. The latter was to make the sky a bit more blue. Finally Noise Ninja was used, it made the sky more smooth.


SLIDESHOW: until today I didn't notice but Shutterchange has a slideshow function. Have look at the top right corner of the page. It's very cool.

Barcelona Bows


For a change I posted something more geometric. These bows are located in Barcelona, between the sea and the column of Columbus, in the neighborhood of the famous street Las Ramblas. I was taking the touristic bus, more specific: the blue line. Theses buses are really great and let you visit everything in this great cultural city.



TECH-INFO: while the bus stopped in the traffic I shot a sequence of 5 JPGs, all hand held, each a stop difference. In fact I did that twice. I used the HDR merge function in Photoshop to align and merge them. It only worked with the first sequence. During capturing the second one I moved too much between the images. In Photomatrix I toned mapped the HDR file to get a natural look. Thanks to the HDR technique, the high lights are on the metal are only a thin border while you still can see lots of detail on the bottom side of the bows. Afterwards I enhanced contrast of the bows and sky separately in Photoshop using the curves tool and selective color tool. The latter was to make the sky a bit more blue. Finally Noise Ninja was used, it made the sky more smooth.


SLIDESHOW: until today I didn't notice but Shutterchange has a slideshow function. Have look at the top right corner of the page. It's very cool.

comments (11)

  • 613photo
  • United States
  • 27 Feb 2009, 03:00
I like that there's not much to give a sense of scale. Only what appears to be a catwalk. This structure must be enormous and I don't think I've even heard of it before. Crazy.

Good shot as usual.
LightningPaul: It's indeed enormous. I think there is some a kind of catwalk, you can see the bar for holing your hands, so this must give a sense of scale. Also I was on the top floor of the bus without roof and I had to point my camera a bit upwards.
Great graphic image. Really well done processing
LightningPaul: Many thanks!
Great HDR!

I pass next to this "sculpture" everyday on my way to work (WTC Barcelona smile
LightningPaul: Indeed, now I remember, this is sculpture is right in front of the WTC. Thanks for mentioning it.
  • Fabrice
  • France
  • 27 Feb 2009, 14:01
A glass roof open to the sky!
Very nice graphics, Paul, I like.
LightningPaul: Thank you Fabrice!
This is interesting--did you try it out in B&W--might work well with the contrast really pumped up? Just a thought.

As a heads up, pretty much everyone thinks the HDR function in Photoshop is a bit of a joke. You are better off to use Photomatix. Good work here--I wouldn't have known it was HDR (a fact which I am beginning to like).

Good work here!
LightningPaul: No, I didn't try B/W on this one. I really like B/W and I would like to make more B/W but almost every time I'm converting to B/W I get so much regret of throwing out the beautiful colors. So the little amount of my B/W images are made because of bad colors.
Most of the HDR functions in Photoshop is indeed a joke. Even the spot healing brush does not work there, luckily the clone tool does. But Photoshop excels in aligning and merging pictures to a HDR image. Then I save it into .EXR format to tone map it in Photomatrix.
I really would love to be able to work more directly on the 32-bit HDR files because it has such a huge potential (it's like RAW on steroids), though Adobe doesn't realize it at all.
I'm keeping my .EXR files to view them one day in the future on a real HDR television, which is something like a High Definition television on steroids smile
  • Alex
  • Spain
  • 27 Feb 2009, 21:41
Buen juego de linias, saludos.
LightningPaul: Many thanks for your visit and comment!
quite an amazing sight Paul and great comp of itsmile
LightningPaul: Thank you Tim!
Impressive result and somewhat hard to understand ! Great !
LightningPaul: I think you have to see in real to understand it. Thanks for you comment.
  • Doum
  • Canada
  • 2 Mar 2009, 16:10
Excellent shot! When I seen the small vignette I said; I think it’s a photo of stained glass... Really impressive structure.
LightningPaul: Indeed very impressive to see. You're right, the small thumbnail looks like stained glass smile
This looks like avery big jungle jim.. smile
LightningPaul: LOL smile
  • Tero
  • Finland
  • 6 Mar 2009, 16:45
Strong, dynamic shapes and just the right hint of clouds in the sky.
LightningPaul: Thanks! You phrased it very well.

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