what mystery dude? tak paham dehh

abaikan...

you guys are good

Here are a couple i took last night when i got back. 3 am. im starting to hate this job
its a full moon tho, now's the time to go for night photogoraphy people!!


f3.5, 18mm, 30 sec exposure, spot metering. levels in photoshop


same as above with texture overlaying and color balance in photoshop:P and yes, the window is dirty to begin with.

and lastly another hdr lucis orton image



and here's one shot of us, the bboys and the promoter girls. taken on tuesday the other day.



okay more later!! gotta go to work

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 23 2008, 09:41 PM

an old car. method = 1 RAW + photomatix + orton + lucis + Levels + Desaturate.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 27 2008, 11:20 PM

More Tour photos.


Where we performed.


The girls and the coordinator chillin'


Caryn on the left and Zin Yi on the right.


Fujia and his girlfriend Sara


Getting warmed up.


Getting ready for a massive freeze


an airtrek coming up

no pics of me cuz im holding the cam. and my brother's cue is with me. so nothing of us yet

Nice pp concept for the subjects. Suits the theme well

thanx. i found out that i get better results by going with jpeg and in camera processing for people shots. and raw for landscape and architecture.

im gonna get a speedlite once this job's over. its gonna be fun

Alrighty as promised my HDR tutorial.
sorry took so long. i just got back from penang last night. and i managed to process a few pix and one hdr. so below is a step by step of the process that i went thru.

so we start off with the finished result. here it is

before

after


the process

so the first thing to look out for is high contrast locations be it buildings or landscapes. those that you won't be able to capture fully with conventional methods. i shot this one from my hotel window. tripod and camera outside the window since there's a pretty big ledge out there and shot three exposures manually and of course in RAW. the proper exposure means that im losing detail in the foreground with a lot of black clipping as seen below.



not a pretty bad shot actually but i wanted a HDR photo.

so i took another two over and under exposed photos of -+ 2 stops.

now you could either do the hdr process manually or use the automated process in photoshop or photomatix. im a bit lazy and since its quite hard to do it manually i usually go with photomatix.

merged all three in photomatix before tone mapping and it'll turn out like so.


and this is my typical photomatix settings. u can get pretty good results with these.


so here's what i got from that


now this actually looks pretty good. u would usually run it thru photoshop with curves and levles adjustments and you're done. but i prefer to take it a step further. since you shot in RAW you should exploit every damn thing out of it lol.

photoshop process

i started with curve adjustments, since the picture looks a bit flat. gave it a bit more contrast and i masked out the trees so i retain the detail and color


after that i removed the noise with noiseware and for the magic touch used lucisart blend for mega detail and contrast. usually i do it over several layers but this one turned out ok with just one. notice how i masked out the sky with a very low opacity brush. 7% - 15% should do fine. don't go over.


then i dodge the trees with settings set on midtones 7% - 15% and applied some unsharp mask


and finally i desaturated the mid section a bit since the street lights were a bit too saturated for my liking. cropped and straightened the image and voila its done!

hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial. later, lucis art tutorial. can't promise when tho. but will come soon lol.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Apr 8 2008, 03:29 PM

Alright before i go. a few photos from my last night in penang.

it started off pretty uneventful. nothing out of the ordinanry to capture


but on the way back to the hotel i passed by these really nice locations and setup my tripod and began snapping.




Shot these two in an alley around 12am.


this is actually the entrance to a hotel. lol! pretty creepy huh?




i have no idea where these stairs lead to. looks damn dark and deserted from the outside tho


penat so i took a little nap here

soon reached the hotle after that. took a shower and slept the night away. thanks for viewing

too much PP i can say...

glad you love your style of PP-ing and having great fun with it !

keep up the good effort. I'm sure many others will flow through to your efforts as well

Great HDRs!

awesome is just awesome. i seriously love your HDRs amir! triple thumbs up!

thanks a lot guys i really really appreciate your comments since i do have to say, i know my pp is not everyone's cup of tea. it is a bit extreme even for me sometimes.

maybe in time i'll tame down a bit on my post processing. maybe when i get better gear. and become a better photographer. but for now im just gonna go crazy

lawanya...............

i really like the 'last night in penang' photos..

Dude, great pics and great job done on the tutorial part..

feels more like digital art to me oledi...
not really fond of the treatment though...kinda over-ed

yea i don't blame u.

just finished some light touch ups with this. a bit blur full size tho.

vivien!!

i like the HDR, sometimes it's not a bad thing to go to the extreme, high contrast and vivid, not everything need to be natural. You can create something super unnatural from it, which u did quite well

keep it up

This post has been edited by vincent_audio: Apr 9 2008, 12:46 AM