DvS' photothread

Quote from Satyre

That last one is realy cool, love the atmosphere in it. Looks a futurist place : )You get a dirty spot on the left of the building...

Thanks, I've been meaning to get the sensor cleaned for a while sometimes forget to photoshop it out.

Quote from JeanPaul

Whatever you do DO NOT clean the sensor yourselfAnd if you ABSOLUTELY have to, NEVER use compressed air or anything of the like

Yeah, I didn't intend to do anything of the sort, too expensive for my DIY tastes

Quote from Satyre

Yeah, I didn't intend to do anything of the sort, too expensive for my DIY tastes

DIY = do it yourself?

This spot is probably on the lens, a simply soft brush is enough to take it out (a brush can also be used (cautiously) on the sensor to remove that kind of things)

Nope, it shows up on all my pictures no matter what lens I use.

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Quote from 2d-chris

amazing

Thank you

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Quote from Punky

And a question, in this picture, did you gave the sky any sort of hdr-threatment or did you just edit it a bit, I'm wondering how you got it to look so dramatic.

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Nope, no HDR used here, I simply do 2-3 passes of adjustment brushes in the raw->bitmap conversion tool, the one where you can change the white balance/exposure etc.

I usually do a brush with -1 exposure with added contrast and saturation and paint out areas that I'm not focusing so much on, and then do the opposite for highlights.

Thanks for the comments guys, really helps

Sum moar

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Quote from Satyre

Nice updates!Are the buildings shots HDR?

Thanks, but no, I haven't had much luck with HDR that looks good (I've tried, believe me) but I've scrapped it in favor of simple adjustment brushes in the raw conversion tool. Those allow you to paint in custom exposure levels etc.

Quote from Satyre

Ok, I know that method but it's very long as compared with HDR treatment. The result is quite nice though. Just pity that the halos are so visible.

I've had that comment before so it's something I definitely need to work on, but when you've been working on a picture for an hour you stop noticing the halo, it's really not that distracting when you're zoomed in.