LightningPaul

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photoblog image The White Round Building

The White Round Building


Shot in the modern part of the City Den Haag, Holland (in English they write: The Hague). When we came out of the parking, which was under the ground, we were standing next to this building. It was looking really amazing. You don't see often such kind of round buildings.


TECH-INFO: five shots with each a stop difference. Lens corrections done in DxO Optics Pro. Merged and aligned into a HDR file using Photoshop. Tone mapped in Photomatrix Pro. I tried to obtain a realistic look. After tone mapping I further enhanced the image a lot in Photoshop. First some extra contrast and stronger colors using the curves tool and the selective color tool. Via masked adjustment layers I brightened the building (using the screen blending mode) because after tone mapping it was too grey. In reality this building has a white color. With another masked adjustment layer of the curves tool I darkened the sky a lot (using the multiply blending mode).

The White Round Building


Shot in the modern part of the City Den Haag, Holland (in English they write: The Hague). When we came out of the parking, which was under the ground, we were standing next to this building. It was looking really amazing. You don't see often such kind of round buildings.


TECH-INFO: five shots with each a stop difference. Lens corrections done in DxO Optics Pro. Merged and aligned into a HDR file using Photoshop. Tone mapped in Photomatrix Pro. I tried to obtain a realistic look. After tone mapping I further enhanced the image a lot in Photoshop. First some extra contrast and stronger colors using the curves tool and the selective color tool. Via masked adjustment layers I brightened the building (using the screen blending mode) because after tone mapping it was too grey. In reality this building has a white color. With another masked adjustment layer of the curves tool I darkened the sky a lot (using the multiply blending mode).

comments (9)

  • frisky
  • United States
  • 31 Aug 2009, 03:36
impressive structure.
LightningPaul: Thanks smile
Nice bit of work Paul, the building does stand out againts the sky.
LightningPaul: Thanks!
Love the angle you choose
  • Doum
  • Canada
  • 31 Aug 2009, 12:06
DXO doesn't work, the building kept barrel distortion (hahaha)! Intersting work, ĞLa Hayeğ in french.
LightningPaul: LOL smile It made it worse perhaps.
Very strange building!
"L'Aia" in italian grin
LightningPaul: Some call it strange, architects would call it modern smile
impressive capture, i love the symmetry
LightningPaul: Thanks.
another beauty.
like the 5 shot bracket and some HDR.....
might try it myself
Cheers
Rob
LightningPaul: This HDR stuff can be fun. It opens new possibilities.
  • Marco
  • Netherlands
  • 5 Sep 2009, 17:49
That's a lot of work, but well worth it. The result is stunning. Very nice!
LightningPaul: Many thanks for your comment smile
I like it, it's clean and graphical almost.
LightningPaul: thanks Nigel. I cleaned the whole building before taking images ;-)

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camera NIKON D200
exposure mode full manual
shutterspeed 1/160s
aperture f/11.0
sensitivity ISO100
focal length 12.0mm
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