Photo of the Day – Roman Baths in Bath – Reprocessed

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In september 2016 we were visiting the southern part of England (UK). I shot a sequence of several bracketed exposure photographs on my tripod, capturing the interior of the roman baths and the cathedral in the background. I initially created a HDR photograph out of five bracketed shots, post-processed with Photomatix and Photoshop. But today, I have reprocessed this picture because taste evolves overtime. The initial post-processed picture’s white-balance was a bit off and that is why I thought it would be good to reprocess this image.

high dynamic range picture of the roman baths in bath reprocessed

I have sold the previous version a couple of times already on 500px, so I guess the image as such is attractive. I really like the colours of the picture very much. So I hope this may do even better.

The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing and surely deserves a visit.

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Photo of the Day – Colourful sky above Eiffel Tower in Paris

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A couple of days ago, someone asked me if it was still possible to shoot a unique picture of the Eiffel tower. This monument has been photographed a couple of billion times by now, from all angles and distances, so indeed, it is hard to make a unique picture of this magnificent piece of archtitecture.

Nevertheless, although the angle may not be that unique, I still like this image because of the nice colourful sky, combined with the construction.

Paris is absolutely one of my favourite cities. Next time I will try to find a more unique angle.

photo of the eiffel tower shot from below towards the top in a colourful sky

This image is created by adding a colourful sky behind the tower. The initial image was shot on a flat grey day. Composition is done in Photoshop with colour-adjustment done in lightroom.

The final result is this colourful picture of the eifel tower.

What is your favourite spot, building or landmark for photographing in Paris?

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Photo of the Day – Louis Vuitton Foundation Building in Paris

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The Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris. I have shot this picture back in 2015, but I have never got to process it.

It is a composition of about 20 separate shots, which means that the full resolution picture is huge and allows a super large print.

Paris is absolutely one of my favourite cities.

HDR picture of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris with beautiful sky and reflection

Processing done in Lightroom and Photoshop.

What is your favourite spot, building or landmark for photographing in Paris?

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Photo of the Day – Exploring More London Riverside

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London is an endless source and inspiration for new creative compositions for photographs.

One of the most known of the many magnificent landmarks in London is of course The Shard. I took this photograph a couple of years ago when visiting london with my wife.

Shot of the shard at the end of More london Riverside, from the scoop at city hall. The shard (in the distance) is a magnificent building that is really marking the skyline of London.
I absolutely need to go back for a re-shoot and get some more pictures of this great piece of architecture.

London HDR Photograph Shard Riverside at blue hour

Processing done in Lightroom and Photoshop.

What is your favourite spot, building or landmark for photographing in London?

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Boats on the river Durme at blue hour

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Long exposures during blue hour was one of the first kind of pictures I used to experiment with when I started photography about 8 years ago. Because I have recently decided to make the Durme river one of my new photography projects, I thought it would be a great idea to go through some of my older pictures and write a blogpost about it to get the project started. Here are the two pictures I have made in 2014, I like the most.

Lokeren is the town, in East-Flanders, Belgium, where I live. The river Durme runs right through the center of the town and people like to dock their boats here in summer.

Photography project of the river Durme with boats on the river at blue hour

The long exposure shots took between 10 to 20 seconds depending on the light level of the evening. It also smoothed out the water movement.

Photography project of the river Durme with boats on the river at blue hour

Both pictures are single shots processed in Adobe Lightroom to show exactly how I have experienced the view that evening.

There are still plenty of interesting locations of this local river to discover, so I’ll be taking more pictures for this project soon.

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How to make a HDR picture with photoshop in one minute

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In the latest versions of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop it has become very easy to create a HDR picture from different images shot with different exposures (HDR Bracketing).

I will use 5 images I’ve shot a couple of years ago in the National Museum of History in Oxford with HDR Bracketing. If you want to learn how to take the images with the different exposures, take a look at our tutorial about HDR Bracketing.

Let me start by showing the result of the processing.

HDR image in the National Museum of History in Oxford

In this post and video, I will show you the easy steps to take to create a HDR picture in Photoshop. You can watch the video, or read the text, or both…

Here are the different steps:

  • Select your images with a different exposure from lightroom ( I usually take 5 images going from -2 ev to + 2 ev.
  • Select the 5 images, and in the develop mode, in the tab lens correction, I select “Remove Chromatic Abberation” and “Enable profile corrections”.
  • I go back to the library mode and with the five picture selected, I right-click one of the pictures.
  • Now I can select Photo Merge, HDR … but I won’t  select that because that is the HDR action of Lightroom and this video will show how to do it in Photoshop. So I click, Select “Edit in -> Merge to HDR pro in Photoshop”.
  • Photoshop will open up and start importing the 5 images from lightroom. Once imported Photoshop will align the image
  • A new screen will open and then this screen where you can set the white point (I usually set it to not blow out brightest part of the picture) and select remove ghosts (in this image some people were moving in between shots, so to remove that motion blur, I will select remove ghosts). The picture with the green rectangle will be used as a basis.
  • Next click OK and Photoshop will create the HDR. Once the processing finished, just save and close the picture. After saving the picture will appear in Adobe Lightroom, where you can adjust the picture to your liking.
  • Next step is to export the image and you have a beautiful HDR image.

I hope this was helpful to you, let me know in the comment and don’t forget to subscribe for more videos.

Drawing a hammer with basic shapes and tools – Adobe Illustrator Exercise Tutorial

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What to expect from the Patreon Only feed

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Now that I’ve kind of set up my Patreon and I have figured out how and what I want share here, I’d like to give some additional info on the basic tier that I have created: “Official Ranger”.

This tier is basically my Patron Only Activity Feed.  It’s here I’d like to post my short stories about my work, the ideas and plans that I have, give updates about new projects and creations. You will also get early access to new work.

I am setting my site up to synchronise with my posts here, so let’s check it out. 🙂

Furthermore, as a Ranger, you guys are free to post to the activity feed as well to help give me ideas!  Thanks so much everyone!

Kurt

Illustrator Exercise – Background with fun design elements

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