Barcelona Harbor, Westfield N.Y. Sunsets
27 05 2013
Panoramic of Barcelona Harbor and Lighthouse
Westfield, New York
Panoramic of Barcelona Harbor and Lighthouse
Westfield, New York
Photography by Kurt A. Moore, Westfield, Chautauqua County N.Y.
These two panoramic images where made on March 24, 2013. Using a Canon 5D Mark iii and a Canon 24-70 2.8L at 42mm. This is a 5 position HDR pano using 4 of the 7 bracketed exposures that I took at the time, that means that I combined 20 exposures 4 at each camera position and then took the resulting 5 images into Photoshop and merged them into a pano. Then I did a little enhancement in both photoshop and Lightroom to come up with what you see here.
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New Photoshop Technique – Photos from Westfield N.Y. and Chautauqua Institution
10 03 2012Have 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 lake front
Westfield N.Y. barn and round bale
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 2012This 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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Painted tanker car update – Railroad car images – Westfield N.Y.
14 10 2011
HDR image
HDR image after lightpainting - Westfield N.Y. - Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
HDR image after lightpainting and then taken back into HDR software
The top two images are from a previous post showing the image after coming out of HDR efex pro, the the same image after doing some light painting in Photoshop CS5. I like the second image better than any of the straight out of camera image and the straight out of HDR software image but it still wasn’t right, what I envisioned as the finished image. I walked away from the image for awhile, when I got back to it I took the light painted image into nik software HDR efex pro to rework it. With quite a bit of structure added to the image as well as some tonal control we have made the image look more like what I think it should.
I do this a lot. Walking away from an image and coming back to it days, weeks, even months later to rework it.
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Percy in Westfield N.Y. – Railroad image
12 10 2011
Percy the toy train for composite
Toy train hot glued to a 2×4 that is covered with white foam core. The 2×4 is attached to a bogen magic arm which is attached to a light stand. The magic arm allows me to adjust the position of the 2×4 to better match the angle of the bridge. The train was cut out of the image in PS5 using the pen tool and refine edge function.
Rail bridge over Chautauqua Creek - Westfield N.Y.
The bridge image was taken with a 18 – 135 mm zoom at 38mm. The wires were removed in Photoshop. The image was also taken into HDR software where there was a little work done to enhance the image.
Toy train on bridge over Chautauqua Creek in Westfield N.Y.
Final image. Composite of the two images.
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Spring Flowers
12 10 2011
Spring Flowers
Looking at the file of old images and reworking them. Processing pretty basic, Lightrooms adjustment brush to darken down background along with the vignette on the edges. The red border and border drop shadow was done in PS5.
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Blue and Yellow Rail cars – Light painted
9 10 2011Image #1
Straight out of the camera
Image #2
Light painted in Photoshop CS5. Duplicated image darkened down dupe with a levels adjustment layer and them painted away the dupe to shape and highlight sections of the image to give it some character that wasn’t in the original image.
Image #3
The light painted image was taken into HDR software to add saturation, structure (clarity) and vignette.
Straight out of camera - rail cars
Light painted railway cars
HDR - light painted - railway cars
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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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Railway photographs in black and white
23 09 2011
Westfield N.Y. passenger terminal Black and White
Railway cars in black and white
Took a couple of the finished HDR images in nik software’s silver efex to do the Black and White conversion. I think these images convert to B&W very nicely, and the conversion capabilities in silver efex are great you can control all your tones, edges, vignettes, and grain.
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Tanker car light painting
20 09 2011
railcar before lightpainting
Make sure you look at the larger images by clicking on the image of your choice.
The above image is a 3 frame HDR image to get detail into the shadows on a contrasty day.
Lightpainted tanker car
With this image I took the results from the HDR combined images into photoshop and did some light painting to give the car a little character and shape.
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Couplers – Railway
19 09 2011
Coupler - straight out of camera - normal exp.
The following image is a 3 image HDR that was taken from the HDR software into photoshop. While in photoshop I did some light painting in a levels layer mask to highlight edges and just highlight the features and details that I wanted to bring your attention too.
Coupler - Rail Road - Light painted
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Rail cars – Westfield N.Y.
18 09 2011
Rail Car - Canada Government - Westfield N.Y.
3 image HDR of a string of rail cars in Westfield N.Y.
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Old barn ready to fall
17 09 2011
Old barn in Westfield N.Y. - Read to fall
Straight from the camera, except a little bit of lightening of the front of the building and inside with the adjustment brush in Lightroom3.
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