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Church - Obidos - Portugal

This is a 13 exposures photo (quite difficult there were too many people visiting the church and passing in front of the camera...grrr...)
I will share my experience with you, i used to put directly to photomatix the raw files than tone mapped and after in PS reduce the noise.
I discover a better way (Thanks Klaus -Farbspiel).
First of all i converted all the .dng files to tiff using ACR, then a reduce the noise in all of the images using topaz denoise and finally i tone mapped those 13 tiffs.
I have to say the result was amazing different, better quality, better colors and much more detail.
And this time i added Vignette and a Frame, hope you enjoy it.

This one is inside of the Castle of Obidos - Portugal
A very cool place with an old style houses made with wood.

13 -Exposures

In a beautiful walk through Ericeira i found this tractor that is used to pull the boats from the sea..much better than 10 men pulling heheheh

there are places very mystical and full of life like this I just visit, it is a shame places like this remain unknown to many people ....
today i will share with you 3 gallery of my friends (If You Don't Already Know them ) that i really like their photos and learn from them:
My Friend Mike www.flickr.com/photos/theaterwiz/
My Friend Klaus www.flickr.com/photos/farbspiel/
My brother of adventures Peter www.flickr.com/photos/pedrommbagulho

this abandoned factory,is really cool.. the first thing that caught my attention was the graffiti all over the factory .. I'll put a picture from further away to show you how the landscape is around the factory, it's a really nice view.

13- Exposures