16 12 2012

Finished Timber Frame at Tanglewood Manor untitled-263_HDR_2-2

Two quick shots taken on Dec 14th 2012. These are more HDR images taken at Tanglewood Manor in Jamestown N.Y. I spent maybe five minutes getting the exposure for these. The camera was set on Aperture Priority, Auto Exposure Bracket, the exposure was Normal, -1 stop and -2 stops. The day was kind of grey and lifeless, HDR was needed to force some pop out of the image. Some contrast, clarity and vibrance  where added in Lightroom 4 after efex HDRpro did its thing. The total time on this shot including shooting and processing is maybe 15minutes.

The below image is what the camera picked as normal (this is straight out of the camera)

 

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16 12 2012
Taylor Tree Service from Ripley N.Y. is helping Frame of Mind Timerwerks

Taylor Tree Service from Ripley N.Y. is helping Frame of Mind Timerwerks

 

This HDR image is made up of 3 handheld exposures taken at Normal, -1, -2 stops and then combined in efex HDR and then taken into photoshop for some final touches.  To start the process off I had to take each image into photoshop to remove elements that the HDR program couldn’t keep from ghosting when the 3 images are combined. Then the images where taken into the HDR program to let it do it’s thing, which I think does a very good job. Then like I stated above it was taken into PS5 for some fine tuning. Location of image is the memory gardens at Tanglewood Manor in Jamestown N.Y.


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New Photoshop Technique – Photos from Westfield N.Y. and Chautauqua Institution

10 03 2012

Have been working on a new technique in photoshop to blend a photo with a couple of other layers to give the image a painterly,drawing with a bit of the photo showing through it all.

The photograph was duped in PS5 and that dupe was changed into a black and white and then duped again and some filter effects added to give it a drawing look and then blended and combined on top of the photograph layer.  Then the background texture layer was brought in and moved to the bottom of the stack.  A multiply layer blend was added to the top layer and a black adjustment mask was added to the original photo layer to allow the selected blending of the whole group.

 

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Chautauqua Institution - Photoshop effect

Chautauqua Institution lake front

 

Westfield N.Y. barn and round bale

Westfield N.Y. barn and round bale

 

Timber frame house

Timber frame house

 


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Another ad for a local brewery – self assigned photoshop exercise

11 01 2012

This is a self assigned photoshop exercise using a couple of images I already had on hand. The beer bottle label on the lighthouse is from the semi truck post made yesterday  and the Barcelona lighthouse and  harbor is a sunset panorama of the Barcelona lighthouse and harbor in Westfield N.Y. on Lake Erie is from 2010. The label was made to fit the lighthouse using the free transform tool in PS5. Some density control, contrast adjustment, and selective density control with the layers mask and bush tool was used to make the label appear that it is painted on the lighthouse.

If you have the opportunity to try some of Southern Tier Brewery’s offerings you should try it out.


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Your next cold one’s on the way

10 01 2012

This is a composite image of the truck and beer bottle. The truck was taken at ISO 100, f13 @ 60th of a sec. with a 44mm zoom on the lens. The truck was moving at about 60 mph and I was hand holding the camera thru a pan.

The beer bottle was shot in the studio with 2 canon 580 exll on camera flashes, 1 on the camera for fill and one behind the bottle in a 24″x24″ softbox triggered with radio poppers. The on camera flash that was used for fill was 2 stops less than the back light.

Both images where taken into PS5 for the composite, motion blur was added to separate layers and dupes of layers to give me complete control. Some desaturation was added as well as color in the sky, darkening of the corners and sky, and I “constructed” the structure to support the neck of the bottle. I also added some noise to the bottle to better match the trucks noise or grain.

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Sunset over looking lake Erie – Westfield N.Y.

7 10 2011

Sunset overlooking Noble Winery and Lake Erie 2

 

This is from the Noble Winery shot from Aug. The image is a 3 frame HDR with some dodging and burning done with the adjustment brush in Lightroom 3. Lake Erie in the background.


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Johnson Estate and Truck – Photoshop Composite

29 08 2011
Johnson Estate Winery - Westfield New York

Johnson Estate Winery- Oldest Estate Winery in New York

 

Truck

Truck in Mall parking lot

 

truck in front of johnson estate winery

Truck in front of Johnson Estate Winery - Composite

 

The truck I found parked in a parking lot at the Chautauqua Mall. The truck image was taken with a Canon G12 point and shoot camera, it was all I had with me. The truck was cut out of its background using the pen tool in PS5, I also cleaned up the front fender and the door of the truck to reduce the reflection in both. The side and rear windows were also cut out to show the background. The background was burned in or darkened were the window are to indicate the tint of the windows.

 


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Doorway – Presbyterian Church – Westfield N.Y.

29 08 2011
First Presbyterian Church - Doorway - Westfield N.Y.

Doorway First Presbyterian Church - Westfield N.Y.

 

Straight out of camera, great looking doorway. Shot with a low angle camera position and a wide angle (17mm) lens causing some of the converging lines.

 

First Presbyterian Doorway - Westfield N.Y.

Doorway at the First Presbyterian Church - Westfield N.Y.

 

I leveled out some of the horizontal  lines to square up the image.  Process  the 3 images as a HDR, the scene really didn’t need a 3 frame HDR to get the detail in the shadow because the doorway was in shadow and an over cast day. I used the 3 images just to see what results I would get.


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Patterson Library – Westfield N.Y. comparing results

28 08 2011
Patterson Library - Straight out of Camera

Patterson Library - Straight out of Camera

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A little under exposed perhaps but brightening it up would cause the sky to lose all detail.

 

Patterson Library - Processed in Lightroom 3

Patterson Library - Westfield N.Y. - Processed in Lightroom 3

 

This image was developed in Lightroom 3. We have a more interesting image, not as flat, more contrast, more pop in the colors, more detail in the sky, and just more interesting to look at.

 

Patterson Library - garden HDR

Patterson Library - garden view HDR

 

This image is a 3 frame HDR. Starting with a normal exposure, +1stop and a -2stop  to get more blue in the sky. The image also received some adjustment brush work in Lightroom 3 to light up the flowers, the building and the fence structure along with the bench.

 

Which one do you like better and why? Please leave comments.


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Noble Winery – Vista View over looking Noble Winery in Westfield New York

24 08 2011
Noble Winery - Vista View

Noble Winery - Vista View over looking Noble Winery and Lake Erie in Westfield NY

Noble Winery vista view - Westfield NY

Over looking Noble Winery and Lake Erie in Westfield N.Y.

Photography and post processing by: Kurt A. Moore – Moore Images Photographic Services

Westfield, New York

These two images were taken on Aug 23rd in Westfield New York. They are taken from Hardscrabble Rd over looking Noble Winery and Lake Erie. The smaller image is a 3 frame bracket and HDR conversion. The panorama is made up of a total of 24 images. 8 camera positions to make up the pano with 3 frame bracket at each camera position making a total of 24 frames. Each group of 3 frames were taken into HDR efex Pro and after I added the same settings to each group the 8 resulting images were taken into PS5 to do the pano stitching. The final pano once flattened was almost 500 megs in size.


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Johnson Estate Winery – Westfield New York

23 08 2011
Johnson Estate Winery - Lightroom processint

Johnson Estate Winery - Westfield New York

Photography and post processing by: Kurt A. Moore – Moore Images Photographic Services

Westfield New York in Chautauqua County

Single image (actually the -1 stop) processed in Lightroom3. I tried to bring back the detail in the sky and didn’t have a lot of luck. The reason I used the -1stop was because it had the best overall exposure.

Johnson Estate Winery - Westfield New York

Johnson Estate Winery - HDR 1

 

3 image HDR that was toned down on the processing.

Johnson Estate Winery - Westfield New York

Johnson Estate Winery- Oldest Estate Winery in New York

 

This version is quite heavly processed but its the one I like the best I think.

Johnson Estate Winery is the oldest estate winery in New York state and it is located on Rt. 20 in Westfield New York.


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Single HDR Images-Dunkirk New York Industrials

22 08 2011
Power Plant on Lake Erie in Dunkirk New York

Dunkirk, New York - Power Plant

Power Plant - Dunkirk New York on Lake Erie
Dunkirk, New York – Power Plant on Lake Erie

Photographer and post processing by: Kurt A. Moore – Moore Images Photographic Services

Westfield, New York

Both these sets of images are single frame “HDR” images. You really can’t have HDR images from a single file but you can use nik softwares HDR efex Pro to get the HDR look from a single file. Click on any of the images to see a larger version.

Warehouse - Dunkirk New York

HDR warehouse - Dunkirk New York

Dunkirk N.Y. - Warehouse

Warehouse - Dunkirk New York


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Barcelona Harbor Westfield, New York HDR Sunsets

11 08 2011

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Photography by: Kurt A. Moore – Moore Images Photographic Services

Westfield, Chautauqua County New York

This slideshow is highlighting some of the images taken last night of the sunset at the Barcelona harbor in Westfield, New York. The slideshow has both the straight out of the camera image and the processed image out of nik software’s HDR efex. Some I feel are over processed, but I’m starting to like the look a little more each time I do it. The straight out of the camera image looks flat and just doesn’t have the pop that the HDR’s have but maybe I’m over doing the processing and getting to much pop, texture, contrast. What do you think? The barn image was also taken yesterday when we had such great clouds so I just included it along with the sunsets.


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Westfield NY – Civil War Encampment poster

9 08 2011

Civil War encampment poster

Photography and Photoshot by: Kurt A. Moore – Moore Images Photographic Services

Westfield, Chautauqua County New York

Practicing extracting elements from existing images and combining them with other images. I think the extraction looks pretty good. No color fringing on the edges etc. This is a mock ad for the civil war encampment that took place on Aug 6th and 7th. I’m not happy with the grin on the gun toting rebel, I think a sterner face would have worked better with the protecting theme but I am working with existing images and using what I have on hand.

All the extracting, tone adjustments, B&W conversion and text where preformed in photoshop CS5.


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Bemus Point Timber Frame time-laspe

4 08 2011

Photography by: Kurt A. Moore- Moore Images Photographic Services, Chautauqua County, Westfield New York

Timber Frame by: Frame of Mind Timber Werks – Stow New York

Crane Service: Taylor Tree Service – Ripley New York

This time- laspe photographic sequence cover about 8 hr of a timber frame assembly done by Frame of Mind Timber Werks from Stow New York. The install was in Bemus Point New York. There was about 2600 individual images taken over the 8 hr period and then taken into Quick Time Pro where the images where combined to form the almost 3 minutes of video.


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