Comparison - clip to the right, and blending modes.

Today I just got the task to replace our toilet light bulbs, there are lesson learn here, but i will elaborate more on that later, now it's the time for photography tips. As you can see the below to pictures, both are taken with 50mm 1.8D and flash sets to manual, i just control the power using the aperture mode. So the one below here are the ones that I clip the lights to the right, so this is brighter (pic 1). Details of the histogram shown in pic 2.

Pic 1

Pic 2

Here on Pic 3 i shoot it as pretty balance in the middle of the histogram.


 Pic 3

 

Pic 4

Here Pic 5, I use the previous blending mode to increase the contrast.

 Pic 5

Pic 6 , i just run the autolevel with the pic 1.

Pic 6

Lastly Pic 7 - I just applied a little unsharp mask.

Well for me I would say that clipping the light to the right of the histogram is the way for me. Even without any manipulations it is already good. So, you guys be the judge.

Gimp boost colors and contrast with blend modes

 Before

After

So here are the steps, after reading Digital SLR Photography for APril 2013. I somehow tried this on GIMP, of course you cannot compare the powers of the Adobe Lightroom, or rather I would say a easier way to completed those changes. Well, GIMP is FREE, and also capable of achieving the same results.

So here,
1. Open your photos
2. Click duplicate at the bottom of the tool palatte
3. top menu - colors -> hue-saturation, on the hue slide all the way down to 0 and play around with the Lightness
4. on the layers - choose Overlay (75% opacity) as the blending mode.
5. merge the photos and done

What i like about the above is that, it make the photos separate the skies and the building, this is more 3D and realistic.

Try it!

2010 testing out effects

Beginning to like this type of effects for photo, will get more
of my photos to apply this effects.

2010 View from Home HDR

just trying out some sample of HDR, pretty cool.