Meet Joe - Local Artist

[theantiquetiger]

I had never heard of him, I just happened to stumble across his studio back in the swamps. I talked with him for over an hour. He says he is about to shoot a pilot for a reality show. Everything is made from scrap iron.

I think he is making me a sculpture of LSU Tiger Stadium. I jokingly said it would be a cool piece, next thing I know, he is taking my name and number and describes what he has in mind.

[theantiquetiger]

here is another (I have more, but I need to process them).

[theantiquetiger]

and a few more. It was midday, so I need to go back in the early morning

[Iguanasan]

What a really cool set. Thanks for introducing us and sharing.

[theantiquetiger]

I really like the picture of him, but all the sculptures were in hard light, so a lot of detail was missed. I want to make him a few copies but I want to make the images pop!!! Any suggestions on how to process some of these to make abstract like, or just make the sculpture jump off the page?

[Iguanasan]

Very challenging lighting conditions to be sure. Ideally, you would separate the artwork from the background with a shallow depth of field but if you are there at mid day then you probably can't get a high enough shutter speed if you are at f2.0. An ND filter would help with that though. Another idea would be to look for better angles. If you had a step ladder then climbing up and shooting down could have provided a simple grassy background which is less busy. I have no idea how you could "fix" them in post.

[theantiquetiger]

My favorite shots of the sculptures are #2 of the second set and #4 of the second set. I did a little dodging last night of #4-2, and it did bring out some detail on the glass head. I am hoping since it has a solid blue background, I should be able to do something with it. I need to see what the dodge tool will bring out of the #2-2 image. These sculptures were so big, if I tried to get the while thing, I had to back up quite a bit, losing a lot of detail.

I want to try a faux HDR on these two images. I do have a color image of #2-2. Any suggestions on how to do it?

[Marko]

Cool sculptures!
Here's a post made a few weeks ago on that may help...but since you have 2 images (hopefully made on a tripod) I don't think it's called faux HDR. I believe faux HDR is made from only 1 image. Either way here is a good link you may want to try.
http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f2/...hop-16304.html

[theantiquetiger]

Cool sculptures!
Here's a post made a few weeks ago on that may help...but since you have 2 images (hopefully made on a tripod) I don't think it's called faux HDR. I believe faux HDR is made from only 1 image. Either way here is a good link you may want to try.
http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f2/...hop-16304.html

No, I only have one shot of each image that I want to faux HDR. I have 2 images I want to try it on, #2 of set 2 and #4 of set 2. All images above were shot handheld. I may take a look at "Darkroom" this evening. Thanks for the info.

[Marko]

In that case open the image and make a copy. Play with the "levels" for each image. Then layer one on top of the other and try to blend them.