Girder Grid

New to B&W conversions in PS - comments and suggestions

welcome. Thanks for looking, RickDB

looks nice to me, maybe a little bit more of distortion correction ?

 

admire the sense of compositional accomplishment

...for your comments. One of the fun things about photography is looking around to find interesting shapes and juxtapositions, this caught my eye as an intersting subject for B&W.

 

I wasn't quite sure what you were referring to with distortion corrections. I made some very minor adjustments to keep the verticals upright, but apart from that, I didn't see any other distortions.

 

Cheers! RickDB

It is certanly true about fun and photography.

 

At the first look the lower horisontal line of rail seemed not all straight to me but a bit pincishioned. Now I have checked it against my monitor edge and found it actually is straight.

 

Have to say I admire your interior shots in churches and enjoy the exelent quolity of jointing.

 

Regards. -Ilia

...I rechecked the foreground horizontals against a pull out ruler in PS, and indeed there is the slightest distortion, easily overlooked even against a ruler. I tried to correct it, but the adjustments available in PS are not fine enough. I have DxO Optics Pro which corrects optical distortion for this particular camera/lens combination. I'll see if it can put it straight. Cheers, RickDB

Thanks Rick. Hope it is of help in your work.

 

I was looking in your portfolio and come to think you have a great expertise in merging and joining shots which I would like to learn. Would you please tell me about XDR and how is it different from HDR? I have tried to merge a copuple of times manually in PaintShop but results seemed to look rather rough ...

 

Hope to hear from you.

 

Regards.

 

Ilia.

...XDR stands for eXtended Dynamic Range, whereas HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. They are actually the same thing, except that HDR has been adopted as a term for what is really an artistic filter effect - there is even software that creates this "HDR effect" from a single exposure and therefore is not HDR at all! I have come across the term XDR in some photo magazines and it seems to be used for true HDR, where a number of exposures are combined to extend the dynamic range. The difference is that with XDR the observer is not aware of the technique used to create the picture. With what is now generally termed HDR, it is quite obvious that the picture has been digitally "enhanced". Like all filter effects you can over do it - there are some great "HDR" pictures that really work from an artisitc point of view - but there are some others that look, to my mind, awful!

 

I use CS3 for creating, hopefully, natural looking XDR pictures (although the process is labeled "HDR merge"). A lot of photographers use Photomatix - I think you can download a trial version from their web site - and it is much, much cheaper the CS3!. Photomatix has been used to create some superb XDR pictures, take a look at the work of Dennis Aubrey and Theo Jacobs on PN - but is more often associated with the "HDR effect" - indeed Photomatix can be loaded as a plug-in filter for PS.

 

Hope this helps! RickDB

Hello Rick.

 

Many thanks for explanations and links to Theo Jacobs and Dennis Aubrey. Most admirable and impressive photography indeed.

 

I have heart of Photomatix but was kind of sceptical on behalf of its a "free download" nature. Probably will try it anyway.

 

But you make your XDR by merging manually as I understand?

 

I would like to invite you to my portfolio to see my attempt on XDR, the Circus image in XDR demo folder. Will be glad to have your opinion.

 

Kind regards.

 

Ilia