LightningPaul

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photoblog image The Lake near the abandoned Power Plant

The Lake near the abandoned Power Plant


An artificial made lake in Zyrardow, in Poland. It was used in case there would be fire in one of the many surrounding former factories. At left you see in the background the remaining parts of an old power plant, which I have shot here too. It's one of the many old constructions left from communism. At the right you see a new building full of nice colors. They start rising everywhere in Poland. On the other hand they renovate lots of old apartment blocks and paint them in different refreshing colors. It's a real joy to see that.


TECH-INFO: this is a tone mapped HDR image of which I improved globally and locally the contrasts in Photoshop, using masked adjustment layers. Nine JPG files, of each a stop difference, are used to generate the HDR file.

The Lake near the abandoned Power Plant


An artificial made lake in Zyrardow, in Poland. It was used in case there would be fire in one of the many surrounding former factories. At left you see in the background the remaining parts of an old power plant, which I have shot here too. It's one of the many old constructions left from communism. At the right you see a new building full of nice colors. They start rising everywhere in Poland. On the other hand they renovate lots of old apartment blocks and paint them in different refreshing colors. It's a real joy to see that.


TECH-INFO: this is a tone mapped HDR image of which I improved globally and locally the contrasts in Photoshop, using masked adjustment layers. Nine JPG files, of each a stop difference, are used to generate the HDR file.

comments (11)

An interesting place Paul and a fine tone to the image. Nice one!
LightningPaul: Thanks smile
  • zed
  • Australia
  • 26 Sep 2009, 01:34
Great work Paul
LightningPaul: Thanks Zed
I love this one Paul. The colours and the reflection are a delight
LightningPaul: Great to hear this Bill. Cheers.
nice work Paul, lacking some contrast maybe?
LightningPaul: I understand your remark though I have to disagree. After tone mapping an image mostly looks too sterile but here I added more contrast in almost all parts. Also blacks are present. Perhaps it's missing some very white parts. Anyway, many thanks for your comment.
  • Simone
  • Italy
  • 26 Sep 2009, 10:20
Beautiful HDR Paul, well realized and balanced...very fine!
LightningPaul: Thanks Simone.
  • Conrad
  • United Kingdom
  • 26 Sep 2009, 13:44
i like the softness of your shot. the HDR is handeled well
LightningPaul: Thanks Conrad.
Lovely Paul. Nice winter light and colours. I haven't been to Poland but it looks an interesting place.
LightningPaul: Poland is very big country. I still have to visit many places over there. It's great to see it changing every time I go over there. It's like some kind of slow revolution.
I absolutely *love* the textures and the light in this one! Gorgeous work!!!
LightningPaul: Thanks Donald smile
Nice HDR. Well done
Saludos
LightningPaul: Many thanks smile
Such lovely light and serene landscape.
LightningPaul: Thanks! As far as I remember, the light was very low.
  • Doum
  • Canada
  • 28 Sep 2009, 11:14
Just beautiful. The story of Poland in link with the communism always fascinate for me. And the green building at the right, is't the hostel seen in previous post?
LightningPaul: It is not the hostel of my previous shot. There is about 1500km between those two smile

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camera NIKON D200
exposure mode full manual
shutterspeed 1/160s
aperture f/8.0
sensitivity ISO100
focal length 24.0mm
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