During my visit in Barcelona we saw lots of architectural work of Gaudi. One of them is the building called Casa Batlo. It was interesting to learn how and why he designed the room and places in that building. On the image you see part of a nice little room with a cosy fireplace. Unfortunately some rope was blocking the entrance place so I had to lean over to shoot it.
TECH-INFO: because of the very low light conditions I shot one RAW file. In DxO Optics I corrected the perspective a bit (not all horizontal line were fully horizontal) and performed lens corrections (which happen actually automatically). Due to the bright high light in the center and the very dark stones I decided to use HDR techniques to rebalance lighting. Most people just throw the RAW File into Photomatrix or any other HDR program. The result is mostly very very noisy. I prefer to develop several JPGs using DxO from one RAW file. Especially DxO removes the noise pretty well. Then I merge the JPGs, in this case four, into one HDR file which I immediately tone map to a TIFF file. Afterwards I modify the contrast, brightness and colors using a whole bunch of masked adjustment layers.
The Fireplace of Stone
During my visit in Barcelona we saw lots of architectural work of Gaudi. One of them is the building called Casa Batlo. It was interesting to learn how and why he designed the room and places in that building. On the image you see part of a nice little room with a cosy fireplace. Unfortunately some rope was blocking the entrance place so I had to lean over to shoot it.
TECH-INFO: because of the very low light conditions I shot one RAW file. In DxO Optics I corrected the perspective a bit (not all horizontal line were fully horizontal) and performed lens corrections (which happen actually automatically). Due to the bright high light in the center and the very dark stones I decided to use HDR techniques to rebalance lighting. Most people just throw the RAW File into Photomatrix or any other HDR program. The result is mostly very very noisy. I prefer to develop several JPGs using DxO from one RAW file. Especially DxO removes the noise pretty well. Then I merge the JPGs, in this case four, into one HDR file which I immediately tone map to a TIFF file. Afterwards I modify the contrast, brightness and colors using a whole bunch of masked adjustment layers.
Excellent ideas to remove noise on artificially modification of exposure value before merge HDR. I ever use try to create 5 jpg HDr with one RAW using CS2. Not bad except for the noise. I read DXO make magic tricks (I use neat image for noise)...
LightningPaul: Thanks for your comment and visit. As far as I can judge, CS2 is not so good for developing multiple exposures of one RAW, it's indeed missing a good noise removal. Neat image will probably work. DxO is nice because it combines RAW conversion, noise & CA removal and lens corrections at the same time.
Great work Paul. Photo came out pretty good. Very unsual and at the same time cosy tones. Thanks again for tech-info. Cannot wait to see what is coming next.
LightningPaul: Many thanks for your visit and comment. I'm glad to hear you like the tech-info.
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