This past weekend at the museum, we went back out at noon to the flight line. It might be just me but here were these amazing subjects and the worst possible light. I knew better but I shot anyways. My thought process was simple, arrange the elements in the frame to make them interesting and then see if in post, I could make something from nothing. So that’s what I did. What you see here are two images, the “before” and the after. The before though is not straight out of the camera but rather, a one images HDR. The first one was done in Nik HDR Efex and the last three done in Photomatix Pro. What the two? Both programs have strengths I think, you can see here visually what I liked. After that the images where finished in PS using Nik Color Efex filters, Bleach Bypass, Tonal Contrast, to name a few with selective masks. And the final images? Well, ah, sorta…na, shoulda gone with my gut and not shoot. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
