Dawg Pics', "Get off the couch."--- 365 images in 2017

Dawg Pics

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I am playing catch-up. Working to earn enough to upgrade the D300. Will she get the D7200 or the D500? Dunno.

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The box lot of glasses I thought I could flip. This isn't all of it. This is just the crystal I separated, which almost covers my kitchen island. I spent $9 on the entire box-lot, so no biggie if I can't flip them for small profit. I thought there were only a couple pieces of crystal. I was wrong.

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Stoshowicz

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I like the HDR effect but dont know how to do it really , it looks difficult to get right. In your opinion, Is it much different from the original?
 
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Stoshowicz said:
I like the HDR effect but dont know how to do it really , it looks difficult to get right. In your opinion, Is it much different from the original?
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Well, that is why I called it an "attempt." I didn't see a big "wow" result. I think you have to get pretty good exposures to begin with. Seems to me if you go anything at all blown, the effect is lost. I tried to go under on exposure to see if it helped, but I think I must be doing something wrong.

I tried a cloudscape as well, but the exposures didn't quite line up.

This is one of the originals. All I did was resize it.

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Stoshowicz said:
Do you mind if I try to recreate the effect with other photoshop techniques?
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No, I don't mind.
I am posting 3 cloud images in my other thread that you can use as well. I also reprocessed the one above, and it came out a little better. It is posted in the other thread.
 
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Stoshowicz

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This was a fun project , the closest version I could get was this , doing applications to the pic in its entirety . The part I couldnt get was increasing the contrast on the clouds and at the same time not make the shadows on the ground too dark since they are in the same value range . I figure the process has to divide the photo by some other calculation. And I could replicate the effect better if I simply used photoshop to divide the sky from the ground for processing. Eventually I went off on a tangent which I added as well, pic 2. obviously from undersized jpeg and resized once more theres color separation which I didnt have at home I can put it on flickr if you want.



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Stoshowicz said:
This was a fun project , the closest version I could get was this , doing applications to the pic in its entirety . The part I couldnt get was increasing the contrast on the clouds and at the same time not make the shadows on the ground too dark since they are in the same value range . I figure the process has to divide the photo by some other calculation. And I could replicate the effect better if I simply used photoshop to divide the sky from the ground for processing. Eventually I went off on a tangent which I added as well, pic 2. obviously from undersized jpeg and resized once more theres color separation which I didnt have at home I can put it on flickr if you want.



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Sure, add it to Flickr if you don't mind.
You can always add a layer mask and do some contrast just in the clouds. It is difficult with trees jutting up into the skyline, though.
Glad you are having fun with post processing.
 
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