GOOGLE HDR EFEX PRO 2 PRO
I used NIK HDR eFex Pro 2 and Adobe Camera Raw to do most of the processing as well as Photoshop CS5 to do some lens correction. I shot in three frame bracket sets of +2, 0 and -2 EV exposures for HDR merging into single images. The purple of the Big Four Bridge lighting is a great compliment to the green and aqua of the park lights. In this final image the Big Four Bridge in the background and the lights in the park really stand out from the reflected light on the concrete tower and the yellow crane boom. Night in Waterfront Park as seen from atop the western tower on pier three of the Downtown Span on the Ohio River Bridges Project. I used the contrast of the straight lines of the bridge tower and crane boom as counterpoints to the arcing curves of the park to create this composition. The final pair of images in this post show Waterfront Park and the Big Four Bridge lit up. This shot above the Kennedy Bridge uses the orange of the roadway and along the river’s shore as unifying elements to integrate the foreground with the distant skyline. Kennedy Bridge on I-65 at night seen from above. The little hits of green around the construction offices really popped and added another dimension to the image. In this version I purposely emphasized the orange lighted areas to contrast them with the deep blues in the darker areas. Louisville’s spaghetti junction at night from atop the western tower on pier three of the Ohio River Bridges Project. I was also interested in the flow of the roads and the way the light trails emphasized their paths. I really like the way the colors of the light change across the images especially the green of work areas vs the orange of the existing sodium lights along the roadways. I was 300 feet above the river standing on the top of the tower and decided to use long shutter speeds to capture the light trails of the traffic moving through Spaghetti Junction. Louisville’s spaghetti junction at night from atop the western tower on pier three of the Ohio River Bridges Project.Ī couple of weeks ago I climbed up on the western tower on Pier Three to shoot the Ohio River Bridges Project Downtown Span and Louisville at night. Posted in Architecture, Fine Art Photo, HDR, Panorama, Sunset, Topaz Plug-in, Waterfront Park Tagged architecture, composition, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Kentucky, Louisville, NIK HDR Efex Pro 2, Ohio River Bridges Project, photography, Photoshop CC, reflections, sunset, Topaz Clarity Leave a comment Once that was done I returned it to Photoshop CC and added an additional layer that I used Topaz Clarity as a filter to fine tune the final contrast and color. This image too is a three frame bracket merged in Photoshop CC and then opened in Adobe Camera Raw to make most of my basic image adjustments. The sky was very pastel along the southern side of the river and I wanted to capture that feature of the sunset as an additional element I felt it was important to include the clouds on the left to balance the composition. I was also taken by the rose color of the light and how it lit the forms of the piers. I set up my tripod just before the sun dropped below the horizon and hoped to get some good light on the piers that support the bridge. In this image I wanted to shoot from Indiana back across the river to Kentucky under the Abraham Lincoln Bridge. The shoreline is Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Piers under the Abraham Lincoln Bridge at sunset. Adobe Photoshop CC does an excellent job of merging bracketed images.įor these images, I am using Photoshop CC layers and Topaz Clarity as a final layer to fine tune the contrast and color in the finished images. Rather than continue to work in NIK HDR eFex 2 I know it is time for me to find a viable solution to my desire to shoot and process HDR images. Even though I have used NIK HDR eFex 2 for nearly ten years I realize that it will eventually be obsolete due to advances in both computers and operating systems. I am also experimenting with using Photoshop CC to merge my bracket sets because Google is no longer supporting the NIK HDR eFex 2 software. With the approach of Fall, I have started photographing Waterfront Park and the Louisville cityscape as the season progresses. Sunset cityscape of Louisville, Kentucky as fall approaches.