Maltese | Cross

deggimatt · Feb 22, 2016

C and C Please

pjaye · Feb 22, 2016

Image doesn't show up for me.

deggimatt · Feb 22, 2016

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d6c6/c1qd7yzv5z4z37xzg.jpg

bribrius · Feb 22, 2016

hdr? missing depth i think you could have taken more advantage of the scene far as depth but still a pleasure to view.

deggimatt · Feb 22, 2016

It isnt HDR. But it has some dodging. Can you elaborate more?

Tim Tucker · Feb 22, 2016

deggimatt said:
It isnt HDR. But it has some dodging. Can you elaborate more?

There are many visual clues as to depth in an image. You have to first remember that when you present a 2D image you remove the effect of bi-nocular vision, so any impression of depth you wish to preserve in your image has to be conveyed in another way. Perspective is one, but not the strongest. The trouble with tone-mapping, contrast 'recovery' and sharpening is it tends to even out differences in tone, acutance, texture, detail, contrast, etc and it is these small but subtle details where your depth is conveyed. Do a little experiment, mask out the foreground steps and on the rest of the image ever so slightly raise the black point and drop the white point, (if you're using a curves adjustment in PS try lifting the shadows up to 5 and dropping the highlights to 250, if you want to be really subtle set the blending mode to 'luminosity') like so:

See what it does to the impression of depth in the image. All we've done is very slightly reduced the contrast of the church relative to the foreground. I'm not saying this is how you create depth, merely demonstrating that it's the differences that are easily removed in processing that contain the impression of depth.