South Shields Daily Pictures
Deputy Mayor
Posted by Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 20 May 2011 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.
A more formal approach here for the Deputy Mayor Cllr. Eileen Leask and her husband Peter.
I placed them nearer to the window on the Beach Road side of the Town Hall in South Shields, the blinds softened the light just a little as I framed them in the entrance to the Mayor's Parlour.
Again the HDR tone mapping was done in Photomatix, then I masked the pair of them back in from the 0EV exposure, finally a little softening with the Lucis Arts plug-in. The three processes although lengthy gave me a result that I'm very pleased with.
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@Roman: I'll have to go and look for that Roman.
@PRASHANT: Ssshh.....don't tell anyone. Slip of the hand, too lazy to correct it.
@Xavi Dom Buendia: There is an intention to have this one printed on canvass, that is why I processed it in this way, I think it will reinforce the look of an oil painting.
@Williams: You might get a shock when you see the true colour of the room Paul.
@k@: Keep your eye open for the straight RAW in a couple of days, it might surprise you.
@dean musgrove: Some like it, some don't, but thanks for dropping in to take a look.
@Loner: Thank you very much.
@BBM: It is quite deliberate to suit the idea of a canvass print that carries all of the quality of oil painting. I used the Lucis Art plug-in to smooth out the local textures in an attempt to replicate a smeary sable brush.
PENTAX K100D
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F/6.7
ISO 1600
18 mm
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