Time for another post in my
Post-processing Wednesday series. For more posts from this series go
here.
In this case
Before photo is 0 EV photo without any adjustments and
After image is finished image that I manually blended using luminosity masks in Photoshop.
About source images
There is still some time before next Christmas but today I decided to show you how I edited image captured during exactly that time of the year almost 2 years ago.
You can read more about the image itself
in this post. Well, image in that post is slightly different but it shares EXIF data as I was shooting with same parameters for almost whole evening.
As you can see in the
Before photo above, some highlights were slightly blown out, especially in the areas near light sources. At the same time some areas were darker than I intended them to be, eg. sky and buildings on the right. So I decided to capture HDR image and for that purpose I took 7 exposures at 1.5 EV spacing. You can see all exposures below sorted from brightest to darkest:
Darkest exposure have all lights correctly exposed and brightest one (+2 EV) exposes shadows correctly.
Editing in Lightroom
As always I started my editing in Lightroom. This time I moved tint of White Balance to +24 to make the image a little bit more magenta. I also applied lens corrections in Lens Corrections tab by checking both Enable Profile Corrections and Remove Chromatic Aberration settings.
After that I exported all my source images to Photoshop for manual blending.