Bill Buchanan, HonPSA, FGDC
About the Image(s)
I want to with all of you a healthy, happy and prosperous new year. I'm privileged to be with such a diverse group of talented photographer.
Last November or camera club visited a local city historical village. There are several buildings with a plethora of unique table top scenes waiting to be photographed.
This was photographed with my Canon 7D and a Canon 24-105 lens on a tripod, Live Focus and my typical +2,-2 0 automatic exposures. I have included my base image to indicate where I started from.
The HDR process did not cover the white area at the upper left window. (I perhaps could have captured detail if I had expanded the exposure range). I made a selection of the area and copied some of the wood from the adjacent split log wall, tined it a subtle green and a soft diffusion.
My next step was to warm up the picture. that was accomplished with Camera RAW filter and some help from Luminar 2018. I then opened the image in Topaz AI Clear that added some sharpness and cleaned things up. I did note some ghosting on the stems of the plant material. I also added some edge darkening to enhance the effect. Finally I brought the image into Topaz Studio where I added the Painterly effect.
I had a vision of this scene being illuminated by a warm open fireplace. I think I achieved my goal.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
4 comments posted
Nice composition and color rendition.   Posted: 01/03/2019 15:42:39