USA 2009 - Part 1

Creation of House of Blood

The original picture does not have enough contrast and color:

Workflow:
- Tone Mapping by using a single RAW file
- Curves
- Levels

Final result:

Creation of Light of Eternity

Although the color version would be interesting the B&W is much darker:

Workflow:
- Curves
- Black and White conversion
- Rendering of a light source
- Levels
- Burning

Final Picture:

Creation of Black Flowers

As you can see the original picture is quite flat:

Workflow:
- Curves
- Black and White - Blue high contrast filter
- Levels
- Burning
- Some fog in the background

Final Picture:

New York 2007

New York 2007

Vulcanos of Sicily

Vulcanos of Sicily

Mallorca 2007

Mallorca 2007

Minerals

Minerals

Duisburg - Industry

Web Gallery:

Duisburg - Industry

Lights of Kaiserswerth

Visit our web album:

Lights of Kaiserswerth

Useful Links - Just in my opinion ;-)

Common Information - Tipps & Tutorials:
Photo Critique Page:
http://www.photo.net

Michael Reichmann's Page around a lot of Tipps:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com

Uwe & Bettina Steinmüller:
http://www.outbackphoto.com

Just a free online magazine from U. Steinmüller and others:
http://www.fotoespresso.com

Galleries & Useful Tipps:
http://www.georgebarr.smugmug.com
http://www.georgebarr.blogspot.com

Alain Briot, my Favorite for the south west:
http://beautiful-landscape.com/index.html

Great Tutorials:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

News:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/index.asp

For the Photoshop Geeks ;-)
http://www.photoshopuser.com/photoshopcs2.html

German Photoshop Web Log:
http://www.photoshop-weblog.de

German Forum:
http://www.dslr-forum.de

Tipps & Tutorials:
http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/articles.htm

Tipps, Tutorials & Galleries:
http://www.normankoren.com

Equipment Reviews,Techniques, Forum and Galleries:
http://www.shutterbug.net/



Good German Magazines:
http://www.fotomagazin.de

http://www.profifoto.de


Technical:
Camera Reviews:
http://www.dpreview.com

Digital Camera Reviews:
http://dcresource.com

In case you have enough money:
http://www.phaseone.com

Without words:
http://www.hasselblad.de

Review, Forum & Gallery:
http://www.fredmiranda.com


Useful Software:
Great image processing software. Linux-Version for free:
http://www.lightcrafts.com/index.php
http://lightcrafts.com/linux/

Correction of lens weaknesses:
http://www.epaperpress.com/ptlens/index.html

Photomatix - HDR Creation:
http://www.hdrsoft.com

Creation of Panos on basis of 16 Bit TIFF-Files (Freeware):
http://hugin.sourceforge.net

Photoshop Filter:
http://www.optikvervelabs.com

Pano creation - Just JPEGs:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Image Processing:
http://www.gimp.org

Pano Warp:
http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/PanoWarp.html

Image rotation and stacking Freeware:
http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/RotAndStack.html

Full Dynamic Range Tools:
http://www.fdrtools.com

Foto-Mosaik:
http://www.sixdots.de/mosaik/en

ImageJ - Image Processing:
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij

Glow and Colorizing

Just a couple of Worflow thoughts

Our new Web Gallery

We created a simple Web Gallery to present our photos in a more organized way:

http://picasaweb.google.com/hiresfineartphotography

San Diego