LightningPaul

A nice landscape view in Zyrardow, Poland. This image is taken while I was capturing for my abandoned series. The low sun, blue sky and bit of snow made it all looking very beautiful.


TECH-INFO: because of the pretty strong back light of the sun I shot 9 pictures, using a tripod, cable release and bubble level. As many of my images on this blog used DxO Optics Pro for lens corrections, Photoshop to merge them into a HDR file and Photomatrix to tone map it. Afterwards I processed it more using several masked adjustment layers. All curves and selective colors tools, though I used several layer blending modes like multiply, screen and soft light.
I have been trying for a realistic but still punchy and even bright looking image. Especially most areas are in the shadows. I also removed some garbage laying on the grass with the patch tool or cloning stamp in some more difficult cases.