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Good Shepherd


Good Shepherd
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Copyright: Bryce Lincoln James (grassknuckles) (106)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-06-13
Categories: Daily Life, Architecture, Decisive Moment, Experimental, Mood, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Camera: Canon Rebel T1i, HOYA 58 mm UV
Exposure: f/11
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Churches in HDR [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2009-06-13 15:02
Viewed: 189
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
In 1989, Fr. Tom Bluger was appointed pastor and given the mandate to build a church. In July 1998, after nearly three decades of liturgical celebrations in school gymnasiums, their dream was realized in the form of Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Orleans (Ottawa). The church is a fairly massive building complete with Baptismal Fountain and large skylight windows.

I used a tripod to set up the 3 shots (AEB -2,0,+2), merged to HDR in Photomatix Pro, brought the tonemapped version into Photoshop where I cropped out a wandering dog at the bottom. If anyone has a suggestion for software to "smooth" out the clouds please let me know, I tried reducing noise and some other shenanigans (masking clouds etc...) but to no avail. I still like the shot, but I'd like it better with smoother clouds...
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  • KBE Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 446 W: 103 N: 582] (2707)
  • [2009-06-13 15:49]

Hello Bryce
Beautiful capture, nice HDR treatment aswell.
U can post this shot for Architectural Add :)

Sometimes with such subjects, centercoposition works :)

For HDR treatment keep the smoothing level at high, if still u are not happy with that then another way is, take the normal exposed picture (AEB 0) and develop it as jpeg doing rest of ur HDR treatment with other 3 images. U'll be having 2 images now, 1. HDR with 3 EVs and 2nd. a normal picture.

Open the HDR treated image in PS and paste the normal picture in new layer, keep the sky as it is and remove rest of the part :)

I hope i made u understand what i mean :P

TFS
Cheers
JZM

Nice HDR effect
Noise removel should smooth clouds
TFS

Nice photos great job.
Zoran

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