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Published: 2012-12-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 927; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 0
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Nieuw-Haamstede, The Netherlands, August 2012Back at my favourite location. This time I went with two friends to give them a little introduction in long exposure photography. The tide was a bit disappointing though, I expected the tide to be higher. However, we still managed to shoot some nice photos.
Technical info
∙ First off: dA once again screwed up the colour saturation. That hasn't happened for quite some time. Shame really... Fixed.
∙ Long exposure + HDR. Finally found a right balance between this, if I may say so. I am satisfied at least.
∙ I used Oloneo HDREngine (30 day trial) for the tonemapping. Quite pleased with this program too.
∙ Single RAW image.
∙ 480 second exposure (8 minutes).
∙ Finally, I used Photoshop for finetuning the colours and removing some minor glitches.
Thank you in advance for any
's and/or comments, they are highly appreciated!
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Comments: 24
Thank you so much for including my work in your wonderful feature.
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8 minuits - WOW - nice one.
Really like this one. Need to check out Oloneo to, photomatix is great but always on the look out for better
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Thank you!
I do like Photomatix and I have made HDR's with it I am really satisfied about. I find it hard however to achieve the more "natural" look with Photomatix. And it has way too many slides for all kinds of settings that I didn't really see the point of
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Lovely colours and comp.....DA messes with my saturation too, big time
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Thank you Linda!
The colours of the sky and sand is supposed to be a little warmer, more pink. It still looks OK though. Some images were messed up a lot worse in the past.
I still haven't figured out what it is. I just checked the embedded profile as mentioned by Phostructor, but I see nothing out of place.
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I noticed on photomatix there's an option to change to srgb at the beginning and that seems to help, no idea how you do it in luminance though, my pics sometimes come out better on FB than DA.....thats bad....they seem to have changed DA at some point as it used to be the other way around?
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I found it. When I convert my files to sRGB they look the same like the dA version, in Photoshop already.
How to fix the colours in sRGB is another challenge now....
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cool, how are you converting them?
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I also figured out how to keep the colour. Look at this Sta.sh and the original photo above: [link]
In Photoshop (CS6):
"Edit > Assign Profile" - this will show the difference. Ny photo is Adobe RGB and when I select sRGB, it will show a preview of how it looks like in sRGB, which is apparently how it looks on dA as well.
Underneath "Assign Profile" int he Edit menu is also the option "Convert to profile". When I use this my colours will remain unchanged, but the file is sRGB afterwards.
Hope this helps!!
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wow that's cool glad you sussed it 
Well done
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If it is your monitor, isn't it weird that there's still a difference between dA and well, the rest?
It can be however... technology can be such a pain in the *** sometimes
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Yes that is weird......i give up lol
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Hmmmm, that could be it. Adobe RGB has a wider range than sRGB. That's why I shoot Adobe RGB. More to test then for me. What happens if I convert my images from Adobe RGB to sRGB in Photoshop for example...
Maybe FB has improved
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I'm no tech wizard but I hope these are useful:
At one point w/dA I was frustrated by the color handling, then I discovered that some of the images did not have an embedded color profile. I still have no idea how it happened. . . you might want to check if your trial software messes with the profile.
Was your shutter speed about 48 seconds on the exposure you used as a base?
Anyhow, I like the quality of light on the top of the right-hand pilings.
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8 minute exposure!!! 480 seconds, so the shutter speed kind of makes sense afterall
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I see - I miscounted the zeros . . .
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That many in a row are hard to read.. I had to select them with my mouse to be able to count them
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Hmmm, embedded color profile... I always set the camera to Adobe RGB, and leave it at that. Something I should check (also for my earlier photos with the same problem). Thanks for the tip!
My shutter speed for the base image should have been somewhere around 3 to 6 minutes. I could not find any logic in EXIF's shutter speed.
And thank you again! Without the tonemapping, the pilings were just silhouettes and the scenery was rather boring.
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