Thursday at the Super Dome

As the Super Bowl draws nearer, the traffic is getting worse and we are having to get in earlier, so no shooting this morning, and it was raining last night.  Hope to do some shooting this evening, but this morning I need to answer a request from an emailer.  I got an email asking what we were going to teach about digital filter programs at the Old Car City Workshop,  actually a lot, but I thought I would walk everyone through one short lesson.

Above you will see 5 shots I made of one of my favorite trucks at Old Car City.  The old Dodge has a great rusted mirror which will be the subject in this image.  I shot five shots one stop apart to do an HDR image.

The image below is Step One.  All five combined in Photomatix and processed into a HDR leaning very slightly to the HDR look side.  (This is accomplished by running the first five sliders back and forth until you get the look you want, and then processing with those settings.)  This is my quick method to do the HDR look without all the gymnastics.

Step Two: Below,  crop, use dodge and  urn to control highlights and adjust exposure with levels.

Step Three: Below, take the image into NIK Efex Pro 3 or 4 and apply Tonal Contrast, adjust the sliders to get the look and feel you want.

Step 4: Below, Take the image back into NIK Efex Pro 3 or 4 and apply Glamour Glow.  Finished!!!  Takes less than 5 minutes!

These are the kinds of techniques and processing tips that Jim and I will share at Old Car City. Hope this helped!

Blessings,

the pilgrim

Just for grins, Brien just shared this with me, pretty accurate Weather Forecasting stone!