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Layer Mask – heath ofee dot com http://heathofee.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:37:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 Calgary Skyline from Prince’s Island Park http://heathofee.com/2010/03/03/calgary-skyline-from-princes-island-park/ http://heathofee.com/2010/03/03/calgary-skyline-from-princes-island-park/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:08:31 +0000 http://yycofee.wordpress.com/?p=619 While on my downtown photowalk a couple weekends ago I made my way over to Prince’s Island Park and took a few shots there. It was a relatively cold morning at about -8 celsius and I wasn’t wearing the ideal footwear for tromping though the snow (slip on loafers were not a good choice) but I couldn’t resist this frost covered bench with the city skyline punctuated by a sunburst. The original crop of this image included a tree in the background on the far right of the frame but I was forced to crop it out when masking in the sky from one of the original images. I’m still working on the whole Photoshop masking process, and this one didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted…but I gotta keep trying if I’m gonna learn, right?

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 10mm, F 16, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

This is a 3 exposure HDR image (-2,0,+2) tonemapped in Photomatix, original sky masked in from the -2 exposure with some final tweaks in Lightroom. Any critiques are more than welcome!

]]> http://heathofee.com/2010/03/03/calgary-skyline-from-princes-island-park/feed/ 1 An Aging Semi and Layer Masks http://heathofee.com/2010/02/25/an-aging-semi-and-layer-masks/ http://heathofee.com/2010/02/25/an-aging-semi-and-layer-masks/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:00:20 +0000 http://yycofee.wordpress.com/?p=610 I live in the far southeast quadrant of Calgary in a relatively new community called New Brighton. One of the major arteries that runs through the southeast is 52nd Avenue and I find myself on this stretch of road at least a couple times a week. Two weeks ago on my way to play a round of disc golf I spotted this really cool looking wrecked and abandoned semi-truck/trailer and thought it would make a fantastic HDR photo. I took a day off work this past Tuesday and took this photo:

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 12mm, F 16, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

It’s nice being a little further north during the winter because the sun stays relatively low in the sky for most of the day. This photo was taken around 11am and the sun was still low enough for me to get it well into the frame. I’ve always been a fan of sunbursts, so I made sure to stop the aperture down (this is f/16) to make sure I got that effect.

This photo is my first attempt at using a layer mask in Photoshop…I should probably have already known how to do that, but I try to do most of my post-processing in Lightroom exclusively. Anyway…after running my three exposures (-2,0,+2) through Photomatix, I found that the sky looked a little dirty and was a bit noisier than I would have liked, so I masked in the sky from the original 0ev RAW file. Turned out pretty well I think, and I learned a valuable new skill! As always, critique and comments are more than welcome.

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