What the heck do we call a "Walk Portfolio"? Please check out our first Walk Portfolio.
Note: All photos were shot with the Canon 1D Mark III and EOS 40D.
Here are some recent examples:
These "Walk Portfolios" are also very important for our new workshops:
 DOP HDR workshop: "Capture more Light"
These workshops actually teach how to capture scenes concentrating on exploring the local environment and not too much worrying about the current light. How that?
- By capturing multiple bracketed frames we have in many cases the photographic material to handle even more challenging light situations.
- The image capturing process is then complemented by post-processing techniques that allow us (and of course our students) to make the best out of this material.
When we photograph we want to enjoy the scene and capture things we like (can be even just funny). We are not thinking about creating the "great" gallery print. This does not mean that some of the shots may not be used for more ambitous portfolios.
Walk Portfolio #004: Niles Walks #1
Venetian Mask (photographed at ISO 1000 freehand behind glass!)
This was a walk in Niles (a historic section of Fremont - East Bay). We also plan to present some sort of data that can be interesting for our readers.
Location: Niles (historic neighborhood of Fremont)
Location History: Have been there a few times over the last 7 years
Revisit planned: Yes.
Weather: Sunshine with harsh shades
Photographers: Bettina + Uwe Steinmueller
Walk Duration: about 60 minutes net
Camera(s): Canon 40D and 1D Mark III
Lens(es): Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS
Images Taken: 39 x 3 bracketed exposures for the 40D(117 RAW files)
46 x 5 bracketed exposures for the 1D Mark III (130 RAW files)
Storage needed: 4.1 GB for RAW files
Time for post-processing: about 3 hours for an initial portfolio
Tools uses for Editing:
- Photoshop
- Lightroom
- Photomatix (tonemapping)
- Lightzone 3.x
- PhotoAcute
- PTLens or Kekus LensFix
- Our own Tonality Tuning Kit 2.0 and EasyS Plus Sharpening 3.0 (yes, we use our own tools :-))
- Exposure 2
- TrueGrain 1.1
Important Techniques used:
- Highlight Recovery (read more here)
- Tonemapping
- Lens Correction
- Perspective corrections
- Photoshop layers
- Super-Resolution
- B&W conversion
- Colorizing
Here is our first draft of the "Niles Walk #1" portfolio.
As mentioned before we will share in our workshops all the techniques we used to create these portfolios.
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