Exams are ongoing, so there still hasn't been much chance to get out and take photos, but here are a few taken before Christmas at Manchester Cathedral.
You've done remarkably well to hold the detail in the colour shots, as church interiors are notoriously difficult. There again, being Manchester I don't suppose the sun was shining! If you shot in RAW, have a go at a double conversion: one for the highlights and the other for the shadows. The two images can then be placed above one another on separate layers, and blended using a layer mask or the eraser tool at low opacity.
I did shoot RAW, and these pics are only from single conversions, so I'll have a go at the double conversion and see if I can get more detail out of the shadows. Sadly most of the highlights have blown in the bottom picture, so there's not much more to recover in the stained glass...
You've done remarkably well to hold the detail in the colour shots, as church interiors are notoriously difficult. There again, being Manchester I don't suppose the sun was shining! If you shot in RAW, have a go at a double conversion: one for the highlights and the other for the shadows. The two images can then be placed above one another on separate layers, and blended using a layer mask or the eraser tool at low opacity.
ReplyDeleteI did shoot RAW, and these pics are only from single conversions, so I'll have a go at the double conversion and see if I can get more detail out of the shadows. Sadly most of the highlights have blown in the bottom picture, so there's not much more to recover in the stained glass...
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