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The Great Photo Finish: Chris from Austria - July 2, 2009
Started July 2, 2009 @ 7:05pm by Kel
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| The Great Photo Finish: Chris from Austria - July 2, 2009 | July 2, 2009 @ 7:05pm | In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the a technique involving a keyboard shortcut for increasing dynamic range (manual HDR) by seamlessly blending a darker and lighter file. This technique is especially appropriate for scenes where the transition area from light to dark is very complex in terms of intricate detail and high contrast.
NOTE: We recommend that you view The Dailly Critique on this image (Chris from Austria) before viewing this tutorial. Clicking on the link above will open it in a new window.
Click here to view the video.
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." ~Ansel Adams | My Blog |
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Steve
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| CTRL-ALT-2 works! | July 2, 2009 @ 8:41pm | Craig - Great lesson! CTRL-ALT-2 does work in CS4 on the PC to select the brightest pixels.
-Steve (PPY)
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Craig
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| Thank you! | July 2, 2009 @ 9:00pm |
Hey Steve,
Thank you so much for letting us know !!! .....Craig
P.S. Happy to hear you liked the tutorial !
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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| July 3, 2009 @ 4:49am | Hello Craig!
Great tutorial!
Another way than the shortcut is simply to switch to channels and ctrl click on the top layer for PC. You should get the same selection.
PS: I have a similar workflow. I usually put those layers in a smartobject after the masking and don't flatten it. So it's easy to go back and do editing on the masks! Maybe interesting for your upcomming tutorial
kind regards,
Michael
Homepage: http://www.mibreit-photo.com
Blog: http://blog.mibreit-photo.com |
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Craig
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| Thank you! | July 3, 2009 @ 6:53am |
Hey Michael,
Thank you for being here and for sharing your suggestions. We will include them in the upcoming tutorial. Have a great weekend (and if you are in the U.S. have a great fourth of July)..... Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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JPetty
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| July 3, 2009 @ 10:39am | The luminosity mask you created is indeed achieved by the control,alt,2 on a pc. You nailed the tutorial. Very clear and concise. Are you going to talk about inverting the selection and creating a shadow mask as well?
Janet
Go ahead and play with the images. I would ask that when you post them on other sites (such as Flikr, Photobucket, etc.) that you credit my photography. I would do the same for you! Other than that, I'm E Z T D B W. |
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Craig
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| Thank you! | July 3, 2009 @ 10:47am |
Hey Janet,
Thank you for the feedback and for letting us know about the PC shortcut. And yes I can talk about inverting the mask... great suggestion. Thank you for all of the ways you support the TME community. Have a great Fourth of July and weekend.... Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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Usha
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| This style of teaching works for me | July 3, 2009 @ 10:54am | Hi Craig,
I enjoyed the tutorial very much and am glad you have started this new section to "teach photoshop. I also really like the fact that you are "nuggeting" the elements into bite size pieces of information. Learning one or two aspects per tutorial and having a "sink" time to digest and mull over is very helpful for my type of a learning style....rather than a whole bunch of info in a long tutorial.
I am also excited that you are doing this feature as your type of post-processing seems more purposeful towards a beautiful end in mind, instead of plain technique learning for the sake of learning a technique. This helps me retain the information better.
Bottom line, I really appreciate learning from this site...in an open, supportive and inspirational way. Thank you.
Usha
Usha - PPY
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Flo
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| July 3, 2009 @ 12:51pm | Wow, Usha, thanks for saying it all for me, lol!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Robert Andersen
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| Great Tutorial ! | July 3, 2009 @ 12:58pm | Thanks Craig,
A really awesome tutorial !! |
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Craig
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| Thank you! | July 3, 2009 @ 2:16pm |
Hey Flo, Robert and Usha,
Thank you so much for all the kind words of support. It helps to keep me going more than you can know.... Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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| July 3, 2009 @ 6:31pm | Hi Craig
Many thanks for another great tutorial. Usha really does say it all and says it so well. Will these tutorials be available for download or purchase at some time? It would be good to be able to hang on them.
I was able to be in the U.S. for two 4th of July's and have great memories of those times so best wishes to all of you in the U.S. on your special day. 
Jim |
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Craig
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| Thank you! | July 3, 2009 @ 7:01pm | Hey Jim,
Thank you for the kind words of support and the question..... its a question I have struggled with big time ever since I had to jump off of the RV sinking ship to keep from being drowned.
I am pretty sure that we will open a store near the end of this year where we will begin to offer archived downloads of batches of past videos/ tutorials. I am still working through the answer. I almost 100 per cent sure now we will not go to a paid membership (which would allow access to downloads.)
We will publish something on the site about this in the not too distant future..... Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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Alex
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| Thank you | July 3, 2009 @ 8:16pm | Craig thank you so much.
I had this exact problem a few days ago and ended up making a real bodge job! Now I'll go back and fix it properly.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your guidance and dedication to sharing your knowledge. Happy 4th July! (I'm celebrating early for you in New Zealand).
Alex |
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Craig
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| thank you! | July 3, 2009 @ 8:49pm |
Hey Alex,
Can't thank you enough for being here ! Happy to hear you found the tutorial to be helpful! Thanks for getting the party started !!!....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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David H
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| GREAT PHOTO FINISH | July 3, 2009 @ 10:54pm | | GREAT EXAMPLE OF ONLINE EDUCATION AS IT SHOULD BE! CLEAR, CONCISE WITH TERRIFIC TIPS THAT WE CAN APPLY TO OUR OWN WORK. LOOK FORWARD TO THE FOLLOW UP. |
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Craig
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| Thank you | July 4, 2009 @ 8:05am |
Hey David,
Thank you for the kind support and for being a part of the TME community. Happy Fourth of July!....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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| Alex Hubert | July 4, 2009 @ 8:29am | So we have another Kiwi on board! Welcome. I hope you'll feel right a home here and I'm looking forward to seeing some of your work soon. Perhaps you can tell us, via a few images, what your problem was, how you "bodged" (gotta love expressions from other English-speaking countries I don't hear in the USA) it and what you're thinking of doing about it?
It'll help all of us learn.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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| Thanks for this great tutorial | July 4, 2009 @ 5:54pm | Unbelievable how many things I have learned in this few days since I submitted this image to The Mindful Eye. Craig, thanks again for this awesome video tutorial. I like your straight-lined way of showing a solution to a photographic problem. Your inspiring words have the power to improve my visions. Thanks for that.
Chris
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christofsimon/
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| July 4, 2009 @ 11:07pm | Great tutorial Craig-------------I have used this method before but now I understand more fully what is going on and can see that it could be used in a much finer way than I have been doing up to now.
Hope you all had a great 4th July Holiday.
Can't wait for the next tutorial.
Julie (Australia) |
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Craig
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| Thank you | July 5, 2009 @ 9:29am |
Hey Chris and Julie,
Chris - can't thank you enough for your kind words and your generosity in sharing your finished file and the raw file. I have also enjoyed spending so much time with the image.... what a beautiful space and feeling you created in your shot
Julie - thank you so much for being here and thank you for the encouragment...it really means a lot. I sure hope to make it to Australia in the near future.... its near the top of my bucket list....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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Alex
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| Thank you Flo! | July 6, 2009 @ 12:27am | Flo thank you so much for your kind welcome.
I've been one of those behind the scenes but devoted followers of RV and TME for a while.
Having just discovered hdr, my 'bodge'! was while layering a real sky into an hdr image that had a tree in a similar position to Chris'. I was actually just experimenting, so would be too embarrassed to post it! I Look forward to sharing my next 'bodgeless' one though!
Alex
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| Thank you, Craig | July 6, 2009 @ 10:52am | This is an A1 tutorial in every respect. This was the perfect amount of information for one 'absorption', and was really well organized and presented.
I'm really looking forward to the next installment, and the comments are great to read, also.
Sally |
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Steve
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| Great Stuff! | July 7, 2009 @ 7:45am | Craig - I wanted to thank you again for this and the upcoming "Great Photo Finish" videos. These have such potential both as stand alone pieces and as reference material for Daily Critiques. It is obvious from all the comments that the lesson, all by itself, is incredibly useful. But in the future, when you do a critique where this technique is used, you will be able to refer to this video for the "how to" leaving more time to focus on other aspects of the critique.
I have one suggestion. It might be helpful to give these lessons more meaningful titles (e.g., "Increasing Dynamic Range 1"). Then it would be easy to look up and easier to refer to. Just a thought...
In any case, great material and wonderfully presented.
-Steve (PPY)
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Craig
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| Thank you | July 7, 2009 @ 12:40pm |
Hey Steve,
Thank you for the support and great suggestion..... consider it done.....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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April
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| Ctrl-Alt-~ | July 9, 2009 @ 6:51pm | So I look to the bulletin board above my PC, and see a sticky note reading "To select the brightest pixels..." saved from way back.
But never, ever would have thought to apply this shortcut to extending dynamic range from 2 versions of a RAW file.
:: happy sigh ::
It is !AMAZING! to be able to learn so much from you, and the entire community here, every single day.
Simply amazing. Thank you.
I hope to be able to pay it back, with some images that say "Yes! It clicked."
April (PPY)
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Just the other day (a photoblog)
"Seeing something you never saw before, that was always there but you were blind to it."—AG |
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pfeel
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| Thanks! | July 10, 2009 @ 8:32am | Hi Craig,
Thanks for a great tutorial!
A few comments/questions:
1) Since I have not yet been able to afford to buy CS4 (and I'm at the end of the upgrade rope at CS2), I'm happy to report that this technique even works on CS2!
2) Frequently, HDR techniques involve 3 different exposures, i.e dark, midrange, and bright. Can you skip a midrange exposure with this technique, or is it just this particular image?
3) Finally, it would be great if TME could add more playback options, such as a timeline slider to be able to move backwards or forwards in the tutorial, and maybe a volume control as well.
Again, thank you very much!
I'm looking forward to the second installment and to spending less time painting on layer masks, such as here: http://www.roamingpixels.com/entry/safe.
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| Video | July 10, 2009 @ 1:18pm | Hi Craig,
Is there a way to purchase this set of videos when you are finished? Very helpful. Thanks.
Connie |
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| trouble playing part 1 of the video | September 4, 2009 @ 1:43am | | Your instruction is great and your vision incredible. I am unable to see part 1 of the video where you merge the two versions of the photo. I tried many times and it stops where you discuss use of the ND filer. I really think this is great info and would love to see it. It stops in the same spot each and every time so I am thinking there is a problem on your end. Are your tuturials for sale? Thanks for sharing your incredible skills. I just found the site and I am sure I will be here often and will avail myself of your classes etc. |
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| thank you | September 4, 2009 @ 9:29am |
Hey Celina,
Thank you for being here and thank you for the kind words about out tutorials.
We did play the video and it played in its entirety.
We have notified our most awesome web mistress Kel and hopefully we will be able to trouble shoot the issue.....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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Community Assignment #53
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Have you heard about the Backyard Shots Photography Guide "Street Portraiture with CraigTanner"?
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