Editing Software Photomatix Pro / Photoshop CC / Topaz Studio / Other
File Format RAW
Notes Merged in Photomatix Pro to 32bit Radiance RGBE file, basic global adjustments in ACR, final layers adjustments in ON1. Lens aberration correction in Piccure Plus, Topaz Ai Gig X2 then resized to native, some crop recompiling and Topaz Ai sharpening. Just a hodgepodge of experimenting
3 Comments
19 Nov 09:13
bilgola
wonderful
awesome
Very nice, I like the way the water below is stopped but the fall at top is not so good?
Updated 20 Nov 15:46
digicam
After reading all the Details of how this image became to be I think I will call you Dr. Frankenstein of HDR......LOL. That's a lot of processing Steve, but it seems to work for you so keep throwing the Electricity to it. Great Focus throughout. Especially the detail in the Large Floral in Fore Ground. Waterfall below is smoother than a Babies Butt as well......Thanks for sharing as always.
19 Nov 16:58
steve_zasadny
@bilgola you’re right about the top looking a little rough. I think the reason for that is that at that point it was more like rapids and not a straight drop like the falls. I didn’t do a selective deghosting on that portion. I should look back at the bracketed series and see if any of the single images would make more sense. It would be easy to feather that in with a layer and a soft brush. If you zoom into the area you should be able to see the rough surface the water is flowing over and that might be a distraction to the flowing look of the lower part of the image. I should have noted that. An extra set of eyes works well!!
Very nice, I like the way the water below is stopped but the fall at top is not so good?
After reading all the Details of how this image became to be I think I will call you Dr. Frankenstein of HDR......LOL. That's a lot of processing Steve, but it seems to work for you so keep throwing the Electricity to it. Great Focus throughout. Especially the detail in the Large Floral in Fore Ground. Waterfall below is smoother than a Babies Butt as well......Thanks for sharing as always.
@bilgola you’re right about the top looking a little rough. I think the reason for that is that at that point it was more like rapids and not a straight drop like the falls. I didn’t do a selective deghosting on that portion. I should look back at the bracketed series and see if any of the single images would make more sense. It would be easy to feather that in with a layer and a soft brush. If you zoom into the area you should be able to see the rough surface the water is flowing over and that might be a distraction to the flowing look of the lower part of the image. I should have noted that. An extra set of eyes works well!!