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lunedì 31 dicembre 2012



Happy 2013


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venerdì 28 dicembre 2012

Purtroppo per un problema che ancora non conosco sono state perse tutte le immagini del Blog(foto e tutorial compresi), mi scuso con tutti per l'inconveniente al quale cercherò di rimediare il prima possibile.
Nel frattempo per chi è interessato ai tutorial o quant'altro me lo comunichi tramite email e glieli invierò.
Maurizio

Unfortunately, a problem that still do not know all the images have been lost in the Blog (pictures and tutorial included), I apologize to all for the inconvenience to which I will try to remedy as soon as possible.
In the meantime, for those interested in the tutorial or anything else please tell me via email and I will send them to him.
Maurizio

giovedì 27 dicembre 2012



Moods and lights of sunset

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mercoledì 26 dicembre 2012



Leave a light on for me


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venerdì 21 dicembre 2012


Rurals


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giovedì 20 dicembre 2012



Lost world


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martedì 18 dicembre 2012


Light mist


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lunedì 17 dicembre 2012


Soft winter


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domenica 16 dicembre 2012


The tree


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venerdì 14 dicembre 2012


Absolute silence


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domenica 4 novembre 2012


Natural mystic

7 Exposure (0, -1,7, +1,7 ev)
Tonemapping with photomatix Pro
Pp with PS CS 5


Before the night
7 Exposure (0, -1,7, +1,7 ev)
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Pp with PS CS 5

lunedì 24 settembre 2012


Faith
(dedicata al mio amico mimmo)
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Il procedimento per questo mio lavoro è quello di base descritto nel tutorial HDR con piccole aggiunte:
ho aggiunto un effetto Glamour Glow che non è altro quello descritto nel tutorial "Un piccolo bagliore in più"
per aumentare la vivacità tonale dell'occhio creato dal sole(passatemi il termine) in pratica la parte giallo/arancio , infine ho aggiunto un gradiente texture che parte dal blù/violaceo e gradua verso l'arancione

settato il livello di questo gradiente in modalità moltiplica e con un pennello morbido ho levato l'effetto dove
non mi serviva lasciandolo in pratica sulla zona centrale della foto(fiori erba e salici centrali) aumentandone di fatto la luminosità, duplicato il livello e settato a luce soffusa ancora per aumentare l'effetto luminosità.
Questo è tutto mimmo o quasi?

sabato 8 settembre 2012

The last ride

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domenica 12 agosto 2012


Mistic river

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sabato 21 luglio 2012



RAY

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domenica 17 giugno 2012

sabato 16 giugno 2012

Effetto ORTON a modo mio

L'effetto Orton  è quell'effetto che da quella patina di ovattato un pò glamour alle immagini in generale, siano esse ritratti, macro, panorami e quant'altro e perchè allora non provare ad applicarlo ad immagini in HDR opportunamente modificato per tale tipo di immagini? Ho fatto un pò di prove e sono riuscito nel mio intento che in sostanza era quello di dare una leggera patina ovattata ma senza perdere troppi dettagli che sono una delle peculiarità dell'HDR.
 Quindi possiamo partire, vi consiglio di preparare la vostra immagine prima di applicare l'effetto(curve, livelli e quant'altro).
Questa è la mia immagine di partenza:

1° Apriamo la nostra immagine duplichiamo il livello di sfondo e lo rinominiamo in Nitido, copia di Nitido e impostiamo il livello su Screen così

                                                        
Ora affineremo un pò i particolari che con l'effetto andrebbero inevitabilmente "sfumati" e lo faremo in Lab Color sul livello luminosità cosicchè non andremo ad intaccare i colori

2° Passiamo quindi in Lab Color e quando vi chiede di unire i livelli dite no, passiamo alla scheda canali e scegliamo il canale Luminosità così:
                                                
                                                         

Quindi andiamo su Filtro- Sharpen- Unsharp Mask e regoliamo in modo da avere un pò di dettagliatura in più, io ho dato queste impostazioni che nel caso mi sembravano corrette(provatene altre niente ve lo vieta)

                                                                              
 Ripassiamo di nuovo in modalità RGB(senza unire i livelli) e quindi Merge down sulla copia di Nitido e ci troveremo così:

                                                                                   



3° Duplichiamo ora il livello Nitido e lo rinominiamo in Sfocato così:

                                                                        
Quindi Filtro- Blur- Gaussian Blur e diamo queste impostazioni:
NB Sfocare in maniera che le forme siano visibili ed i dettagli meno.

                                                                                     


Quindi impostiamo il livello su moltiplica e questo sarà il risultato:

Prima:

                                                             

Dopo:

                                                                                 



Come potete notare l'immagine ha una piccola patina sfumata ma i dettagli sono ancora abbastanza visibili, se ritenente opportuno regolate l'opacità del livello fino al vostro gradimento, quindi unite tutti i livelli e salvate.

Spero vi sia piaciuto e possa essere utile, naturalmente è un effetto che non andrà bene per qualsiasi immagine ma basta provare.

Ciao a tutti 

Maurizio











domenica 20 maggio 2012


Festina Lente

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VILLA DEI VESCOVI-PD

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mercoledì 16 maggio 2012

MY WORKFLOW FOR HDR

My tutorial on the workflow for HDR wishes to meet the requests of those users who asked me that on Flickr and not only this, it is important for me to underline that each image has got its own story
and even if the postproduction is for some aspects mainly the same in the use of certain Plugins, different are the stages of work in Photoshop, both for the use of masks, levels of fusion and so on.  So I hope you know the basis of Photoshop because it is an essential tool, in my opinion, to obtain a
good result on the final image.
First of all it is necessary to spend some words about HDR and the Lab color method (an incredible technique to give new colours and light to your photos).
HDR is a technique for having final images, starting from several shots and joining them, with a tonal range impossible to obtain with a single shot. In my workflow I start by applying the basic
technique of HDR and then in Photoshop I apply several "tricks" so that the final result is more “evocative” (let me use this term) and thus each image has got an “independent” working process
except for the basic steps that I’m going to describe in this tutorial.
Color Lab or CIELAB color space is something wonderful because it includes a range of unimaginable colours, a range which is much wider than normal RGB. Working in this way you
simultaneously have got positive effects on the brightness of the photo.
Lab space is based on three channels: "L" "a" and "b"
"L" is the channel that has got all the lightness information, while "a" and "b" contain colour information.
Color Lab only works on 16 bit images and does not want Levels adjustment opened in Photoshop


               
















After that kind of short but necessary information, it is possible to start.


I usually take 5 or more shots whose variations are from 0 EV to -1,7 or +1,7, but in case of extreme lights (for example churches interiors or places with little light) I can use even 11
exposures. Then you launch Photomatix and you join the shots by giving this settings..



                                                                                                 




















Picture.3

 In picture 3, highlighted with arrows, you can see those sliders where I mainly work in order to make changes to the image. When
you finished the various adjustments, you click on Tone mapping. At the end of the elaboration you save your file in a .tif format 16
bit.



Picture 4
                                               



Then you launch Photoshop to give depth to your image and work on necessary adjustments or corrections in order to have a HDR name worthy. The first thing you do is to reinforce colour on
your image processed with Photomatix, so open your file and enjoy yourself.


Picture 5
Example image on which I’ll work                          



Go to Image/Mode/Lab Color you add the adjustment curve and then you give these setting.





You then join the levels and select the channels by clicking on Lightness channel (blue selection):
Fig. 5                                  

















Open Filters/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask and give these settings:

Thanks to this step you give more density to the lightness channel and your image results more lively now.



Of course the curve I suggested is open to different modifications at your pleasure, if you think colours are too intense you can either modify the curve or decrease the opacity level or work
selectively on the level mask with a soft brush with 60% hardness and a 20/30% opacity. This first
intervention justify my choice of using a low “Color saturation” in  Photomatix, from 40 to 50%
maximum, because in Ps with Lab Color I use a more complex range of colours and at the same time I give depth to the lightness of the image itself.


This is the result of my work after the procedure I’ve just described.
Before
After




Better than before, isn’t it? More lively and brighter!


Now it’s time to give balance and full-body to your photo by using Nik Color Efex Pro a helpful and excellent plugin, in my opinion, to give more structure to HDR. You launch it and then choose
the preset Glamour Glow with these settings:



Join the levels, launch Nik again and choose the preset Tonal Contrast with these settings:




As you can see the image got much “depth”, of course as I told you before you can change parameters at your pleasure, but I find that this choice is a good compromise and the image is not
too “noisy”. Thus applying a mask you can work where and how you like or need.



As you can notice the excellent work of Nik Color Efex has got both advantages and faults which
according to me consist on the “noise” of the image, especially visible in the sky (in my example,
but also in general). Luckily you have got the help of another excellent plugin Noiseware by Imagenomic that is fantastic in my opinion. I prefer it to Topaz Denoise (to my personal
experience) because it is faster in its way of processing and the quality of its results is the same as Denoise. So do a copy of the level by pressing CTRL+J, launch Noiseware and choose Default
settings.






It is better, isn’t it? If the image is particularly noisy, you can choose other presets which work in a more forceful way, such as Stronger color noise or Full(stronger color noise). Even these plugins have got faults because they do not work selectively on the image and precisely where you need it;
they simply apply their effects on the all image softening those details that you may want to be more “emphasized”. Well, just apply a mask on the level and again with a soft brush you manually
remove the effect where it doesn’t interest you to be applied (ha San photoshop)?
You’ll obtain a full tone image, full-bodied but not noisy, like this:




And now the final step, you make your image more clear and detailed once again with Lab Color. You work on the “L” channel (Lightness) because this level works better with whites, on dark
marks and other colours.
Open your image and work on Lab Color modality; select the Channels and click on Lightness (blue selection), click then on Filters/Sharpen/Unsharp mask and set it like this:




Once you did this, go to RGB and save your image. Here the result is more refined.




More defined and detailed. With this step my tutorial is finished, I hope you enjoyed it and if you have question ask them on Flickr.


P.S.:
More often taking photos at sunrises and sunsets I like to give more depth to certain colours like yellow, orange or red to enhance the tonal beauty and I do it with a Smart glow which I’ll explained
in another tutorial, for now enjoy this. I hope it has been useful for you.
Bye and see you soon
Maurizio