The Weekly Photo – October 3, 2011
©Darwin Wiggett
Canon EOS-1ds Mark III, Sigma 24-70mm lens at 26mm, base exposure was 1.6s at f14, Singh-Ray LB Warming polarizer, 5 exposure bracket processed in Oloneo PhotoEngine and then converted to B+W in Nik Silver Efex Pro and then layered back with the PhotoEngine colour image. Click on the image for a larger view. Below is the base exposure to show the before.
©Darwin Wiggett - middle exposure of the series
Darwin Wiggett 
October 3, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Super image Darwin, just the right treatment for that particular subject. I feel another shopping session in the offing!
October 3, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Are you saying that all those steps added value on the way to the final image? Please show how.
October 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM
I would not have done all those steps if they didn’t add to the image! I have posted the original image for you to see the ‘before’.
October 4, 2011 at 8:23 AM
Darwin,
Could you explain a bit about the intent behind and process of layering the b&w back into the tonemapped image?
October 3, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Great shot Darwin, you can almost smell the old rotting truck. The treatment is fantastic, I know you’ve mentioned before how much you like oloneo. I have been looking at options for extending dynamic range with a natural look for black and white, in your opinion is this one of the better options?
October 4, 2011 at 6:12 AM
I am now using PhotoEngine almost exclusively for all my HDR work. Love it!
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October 5, 2011 at 7:30 AM
Darwin, I am also using Oloneo for most of my HDR work. It has to be the most realistic looking HDR – love the stuff you are doing with it!!!
October 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM
That’s a lot of steps to go through but it looks like the results are definitely worth it. I love the result!
November 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM
So are you windows user or do you use it (oloneo) through parallels? I’m mac user and considering buying win7 and parallels..
November 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM
I use Windows