Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Indigo Sunset

Today's picture was taken from my office at sunset. It was a foggy morning that day so I had taken my camera to work, because I would love to get a shot of skyscrapers sticking out of the fog. Well, the skies cleared just before I reached the office so I turned to taking pictures of the sunset instead.

I recently purchased a set of Graduated Neutral Density (GND) filters from Lee Filters, specifically designed for use with my Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 wideangle lens. I look forward to using these in landscape photography, but also want to test their limits in architectural photography. I used a 0.6 GND filter in this pic and I think it worked out well.

If you have questions or would like to hear more details about GND filters and how they work please feel free to drop me a comment.


Here's the photo:

14mm, f13, 8s, ISO 400, Lee 0.6 GND filter

I only now realise I was using ISO 400. Whooops.... should have been ISO 200, of course.

Post-processing included the following steps:

Lightroom
  • Temperature: 4200K
  • Tint: +7
  • Exposure: 0.00
  • Recovery: 0
  • Fill Lights: 20
  • Blacks: 7
  • Brightness: +50
  • Contrast: +25
  • Clarity: +20
  • Vibrance: +10
  • Saturation: 0
  • Export to Photoshop
Photoshop
  • Apply Lens Correction Filter: Custom --> Vertical Perspective +2
  • Apply Spot Healing Brush
  • Apply Smart-Sharpen Filter: Amount 40%, Radius 1.3px
  • Save as TIF
CaptureNX2
  • Apply U-Points: Slightly increase the saturation of bronze glow on medium left tower and of green lights at the base of central tower
  • Convert to sRGB with perception based rendering intent
  • Save as JPG
Photoshop
  • Insert watermark
  • Save as JPG
Cheers,
Sebastian

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