A lovely old church in Trinidad, Cuba
This beautiful old church is one of my favorite places to photograph in Trinidad, Cuba. It’s fascinating from many angles, aged to perfection, and has a lot of history and character. I could not decide which version I liked best, the HDR image above, or the infrared version below, so I uploaded both! I hope everyone has a wonderful day today! Happy Easter! ~ Deb
The IR version of course! 🙂 I still haven’t decided about the use of HDR. It seems that when it’s overdone, the image ends up looking more like a cartoon than a photograph. I’ll just keep looking….
Great shots as always Deb.
Gary
Hi Gary, I’m glad you like the IR version, me too! Thank you very much! ~ Deb
Hopefully you don’t see duplicate comments. My first one….disappeared and it’s not recognizing my Google account…grrrrr.
Wondering about your white clouds. Did you bring them out separately during your B&W conversion or is that how they came out when converting the whole image? I use Nik SEP as well and I don’t often see my clouds come out that white in my images. So were they just from your original image or did you enhance them separately in SEP?
Thanks,
Gary
Hi Gary, Sorry you had trouble with Google! Great question about the clouds. Yes, they were that intense and bright, what was enhanced was the sky around the clouds, making it just a tad darker, creating contrast. Partly because of the preset, perhaps Dynamic Harsh or grad filter) and I put control points in the sky to selectively darken areas. I do everything in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, especially with this new version – there is much control. Try different presets to start with, and try the color filters on the right side of the panel, they can make a big difference in an image too. Hope that helps!
Thanks Deb. I usually play with the presets and color filters and adjust the contrast and structure from there. I have yet to really master the control points (time for one of those free webinars!) and I need to upgrade to version 2.
You are always a big help!
Gary