I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. It’s been a very, very hectic 2 weeks: holiday, photo shoots, you name it, we’re doing it. That includes, a little shopping. Actually, we don’t go out during Black Friday; if anything, we just shop online (hence the title of this post). One of the deals I did get this year was thanks to my good friend, and photography mentor, ucfmat from An Asian and His Camera (Check him out – he makes my pics look like child’s play). Topaz Labs was having a fantastic 50% off holiday sale on all of their photo editing software. I use Lightroom, so many of their programs are redundant for me, but I did some one that really caught my attention: Adjust. Adjust essentially helps you create HDR style images using just one image. It’s a plug-in program, so it works directly with Lightroom.
I haven’t used the program a whole lot this week, so what I have for you tonight is the inaugural image. I had to dig deep to find a picture that I thought would look good with Adjust effects. So, I ended up pulling one from our trip to Boston earlier this year. I took this picture on my Sony NEX-3 while we were talking from the Red Sox game to Kenmore Station. In fact, this is on Brookline Ave. looking west at the Mass Pike. I just placed the camera down on a “shelf” if you will, and took a standard 4 second, long exposure capture.
I have two pictures in the set: the non-edited picture is the one without a watermark, and the edited has the watermark. What do you think? I don’t like “super HDR” style pictures, so I didn’t want to over-do it. Leave me your thoughts below!
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Definitely keep looking at Adjust’s other features too outside of the HDR ones. And transparency setting has been my friend in helping soften some looks that start out too rough but are the direction I want to go.
Keep up the great work!
Will do, thanks!