'09 Hudson River Photography Workshops Week II: Post #3: Color/B&W in the Same Image

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Here's a cool HDR image by workshop participant Julie Johnson... and here is how she created it:

I shot this image with my Canon 5D Mark II (RAW file) and my Canon 15mm fisheye lens. I took three exposures (ISO 100), all at f8 – at 1/8, 1/20 and .3 sec. In HDR photography, the aperture must remain the same for all your exposures. You need to bracket with your shutter speed.

The images were first merged in Photomatix to create a realistic-looking image – as opposed to an image with stronger-than-normal colors and contrast.

Next, I created two layers in Photoshop and then desaturated the top layer. I made a selection of the main subject and then used a mask to allow the original color to show.

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Nice work Julie!

If you would like to learn how to create images like this one, check out my classes on Kelby Training. "Color and B&W in the Same Image" is one of the classes listed under "Photoshop Quick Tips."

For more my workshops, see the Events page of my site.

Explore the light,
Rick



'09 Hudson River Photography Workshops Week II: Post #1

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It's Week II of our '09 Hudson River Photography Workshops. Another great group!

Jack "Capt. Jack" Leggett was the first to submit an image for our group slide show. Here's Jack's HDR shot of the New Croton Dam.

Check out the beautiful quality of the flowing water - created by using a slow shutter speed combined with HDR imaging (3 exposures: 0, +2 and -2).

Late afternoon light and nice composition added to the impact of this photograph.

Click here for more info on HDR.

More images to come from this week's group. Stay tuned.

Check out older posts on my blog to see images from last week's shoot.

Explore the light,
Rick

Rick's Ghost Captured By Camera

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Yikes!

While shooting a video this week on the benefits of the ColorMunki, Rick's ghost was actually captured during the on-location part of the shoot at a haunted house by the MAC Group's creative director Ab Sesay's camera! See the middle photograph.

The bottom image is Rick's HDR shot of the room - an image captured with his Canon 5D Mark II/17-40mm lens, processed with Photomatix and Topaz Adjust, and then printed on his Canon Pro 9000 Mark II printer. To get prints that match the color on his monitor, Rick uses the ColorMunki as his calibration/profiling device.

For more on HDR, see the plug-in experience.

We'll keep you posted as to when the video will be posted.

Happy Halloween!

P.S. Boo!

Little of what we look at do we see

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"Little of what we look at do we see." Richard Fahey

That's an important quote for photographers, because it's so very true.

It's the same with music, by the way: We listen to little of what we hear. Any musician can tell you that.

I experienced the "looking/seeing" difference while on an expedition to Antarctica. We were riding around in a Zodiac when I noticed an interesting ice formation (bottom photograph). I said, "Look, look," w/out saying what I saw (top photograph). Only two of the eight people in the Zodiac saw it: an ice sculpture of a polar bear - complete with eyes, ears, nose, mouth paw, knee and foot!

I asked the Zodiac driver to maneuver around the ice formation to find a "cleaner" view of the ice sculpture. We found one, and we all took the same photograph of what I believe is the first sighting of a polar bear in Antarctica.

Explore the Light,
Rick