The State Dining Room (HDR) [Explored]

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Explored! Highest position: 337 on Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The story of this photo:
This is the state dining room in the Grandmaster’s Palace in Valetta, Malta. Two beautiful chandeliers, a (comparably) small table and the portraits of all the former Maltese presidents and governors are the most notable features of this hall.

Enjoy!

I hope that each of you is having a great holiday time and that Santa Claus brought you some cool Christmas presents. He sure did for me. I got so many new gadgets, I think I have to spend all of my holidays playing with them. 🙂

Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.

How it was shot:
> Handheld [details]
> Three exposures (-1, -3, +1 ev) autobracketed and merged to get and HDR
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here

How it was tonemapped:
> Preparation: developed the raw files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
> Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)

How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise on the entire image [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Saturation layer on the walls (desaturation)
> Saturation layer on the copper ornaments in the ceiling (master)
> Global saturation layer (master)
> Curves layer on the floor (more contrast and enhancing the reflective look)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Watermarking

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Posted by farbspiel on 2010-12-27 15:08:20

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