The Shot
Last Tuesday was one of the few days in the last few weeks with a decent sunny day. I took the opportunity for some Autumn colours shots. This is a beautiful location where a footpath goes from the village of Halnaker near Chichester, UK up to Halnaker Mill on the Sussex Downs.
Taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 28-200 Zoom at 135mm. Taken with a Tripod with auto bracketing for HDR. 3 raw images 2EV spacing. Opened in Photoshop first and each image noise reduced with Noiseware Pro and saved as tiffs.
Photomatix
Outputted in Photomatix to detail enhancer. Click the Camera name top right for the Exif information and details of the settings used.
Photoshop
The -2EV original image was copied and pasted as a new layer with a black layer mask. A brush was then used to show the layer in the area at the end of the tunnel to darken the highlights.
General adjustments in levels and curves to enhance with layer masks to exclude the highlights.
Saturation Adjustment Layer, yellows used to increase saturation in some areas of the foliage and path.
Second Saturation Adjustment Layer master to slightly reduce overall saturation.
Warming Photo Filter adjustment layer
Noiseware Pro
Unsharp Mask a little sharpening low radius and higher amount.
Duplicate layer with mask to apply extra sharpening and contrast with low amount and high radius (Clarity Effect) to the foreground and nearer trees.
Resources
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neimon2 (too busy, sorry for my temporary silence) 20 months ago | reply
A vortex of sensations! Gorgeous!
Zed The Dragon 20 months ago | reply
Excellent HDR process, with great colors and compo :)
ImageHUNTER23 20 months ago | reply
really nice shot.nice colors
Insect~O~Saurus 20 months ago | reply
this is amazing Edwin, a truly brilliant work
dessardo federico 20 months ago | reply
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Lazar Evans [deleted] 20 months ago | reply
absolutely beautiful and inspiring!
glosszoom 20 months ago | reply
super shot
Matt-Payne 20 months ago | reply
wow! This is really great!
inspired_view 20 months ago | reply
Stunning shot Edwin!! great composition and colours. beautiful.
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tracy s c 19 months ago | reply
wow . your pics remind me of the sort of pics i like to take . im still learning . and im new to flickr . so still finding my way round , layering is not somthing i have tryed as yet not sure how to lol , would like to try :) . sat here with a coffee looking through your work of art . a reminder of how beautiful our world is,
Amar.kumar 19 months ago | reply
wow..lovely!!
Norman Atkinson 19 months ago | reply
great Edwin autumn tunnel
franc/34 19 months ago | reply
très belle composition !
sognatore58 19 months ago | reply
This is a wonderful picture
quader™ 19 months ago | reply
amazing shot! wow!
hantslad 15 months ago | reply
Wonderful shot
Heem22 13 months ago | reply
Fairy tale like!!
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Garywham 8 months ago | reply
best shot of autum
glosszoom 8 months ago | reply
stunning work of autumnal coloras
Robert,s 7 months ago | reply
Beautiful capture lovely colours and compo congrats Edwin