Project 5: Multiple Image Technique

HDR

For this HDR I used a photo I had that included multiple subjects: the sky, buildings, and a giant chess piece. I first went through the steps of creating digital copies, and putting one to a -4 exposure, another to -2, and third left alone, a fourth as +2, and the fifth as +4. I then selected all five photos and chose "edit in" merge to HDR in Photoshop. From there, I used many different layers to achieve the intense reds, pinks, and purples in the photo. I changed the brightness and contrast, the exposure, and the color balances. I also used different filter looks like invert. I used the filter "plastic wrap" from the filter gallery to make the sky look very odd and have a different texture than everything else in the photo. I turned up the gradient on the chess piece to bring out more purples and blues.

After following the same steps as above to get the photo into the HDR mode in photoshop, I got to editing. The first thing I did was invert the colors in the photo, and then I went back and edited the colors in it. I loved how inverting it made the crane white and the sky almost black. I used some of the sketch filters from the filter gallery in Photoshop. I made the sky pitch black, and I had the clouds be black with purple and some pink because the white of the clouds was lighter than the blue of the sky. I turned up the blacks in the photo to make sure the sky was as black as possible, and I did the same thing with the whites to make the crane stand out.

This photo is really a cross between HDR and multiple exposure. I took multiple photos of Marya from different angles and then chose two from the bunch. I chose ones that overlapped well together, so that it looked like one was slightly raised above the other. I then changed the temperature, to get the colors to a green and blues, and then used the hue and saturation toggles to get the greens to a pink and the blues to look dark and light. I turned the exposure down and then inverted the image to get some kind of creepy, scary effect, like her eyes being white pupils against black eye balls.