Mugdock Castle

[Garrie]

Hi all,

Was out today with Susan at Mugdock park, it was baltic cold and very windy.

Got a few shots of the castle which I'm gonna tonemap

However this one is just a processed raw using capture one (cheers Andrew)



Cheers
Garrie

[Garrie]

Re: Mugdock Castle

another...

Bit bummed about the sky being blown out, not sure how to fix it. Will have a play about with the underexposed shot and layer them in PS although I think thats a little beoynd me

[Jim Ford]

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Bit bummed about the sky being blown out, not sure how to fix it.

I suspect that if it was raw and developed in Adobe Camera Raw, you could recover most if not all the highlights in the clouds.

BTW, how do you do your tone mapping - I've seen some of your pretty impressive results?

Jim Ford

[theMusicMan]

Re: Mugdock Castle

another...

Bit bummed about the sky being blown out, not sure how to fix it. Will have a play about with the underexposed shot and layer them in PS although I think thats a little beoynd me

Hey Garrie

Here's a quick edit of your jpg in LightRoom... I played with the levels, saturation and vibrance settings to come up with this...



Do you have Lightroom... if so I am happy to save the develop preset for you (if I can figure out how to then send it to you!)

[Garrie]

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I suspect that if it was raw and developed in Adobe Camera Raw, you could recover most if not all the highlights in the clouds.

BTW, how do you do your tone mapping - I've seen some of your pretty impressive results?

Jim Ford

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the kind words. I tone map using Photomatix. I shoot unusually as I only have an EV step of 1 which means taking 3 shots, each shot at 0, +1 and -1 (normally its EV2 steps). Then combine them in photomatix to make a "HDR" image and finally use photomatix to tonemap, I like grittyness so I do tend to over cook them which means the strength is normally set to 100%

Any questions or setting you need give us a shout and I'll happily send you some settings

Cheers
Gar

[Garrie]

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Hey Garrie

Here's a quick edit of your jpg in LightRoom... I played with the levels, saturation and vibrance settings to come up with this...



Do you have Lightroom... if so I am happy to save the develop preset for you (if I can figure out how to then send it to you!)

Hi John,

Liking the colours, will look great to process the original RAW.

Yes I use lightroom (used capture one4 for these shots though) Its very kind of you to offer a develop preset and would love to use it. You always get the sharpness and colours of all your shots SPOT ON!

my email addy is [email protected] if you don't mind sending the file?

Cheers
Gar

[theMusicMan]

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Hey Garrie - I have my wife just arriving home in 10 mins from picking her Dad up from Heathrow and then an online conference call and demo (yep - on a Sunday too!!) until around 20:00. I need to figure out how to get the preset to you, but rest assured I shall find out.

Glad you liked the result...

John

[Garrie]

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Hey Garrie - I have my wife just arriving home in 10 mins from picking her Dad up from Heathrow and then an online conference call and demo (yep - on a Sunday too!!) until around 20:00. I need to figure out how to get the preset to you, but rest assured I shall find out.

Glad you liked the result...

John

Hi John,

No rush at all bud. If you need any vinyl graphics, decals, custom T Shirts etc give us a shout, I'll be more than happy to help

[Barr1e]

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Garrie -

Thanks for showing the Castle. Anne and I lived in Bearsden for four years (1970/4) and never visited it. Shameful I know - some parts look in pretty good order.

Regards. Barr1e

[Garrie]

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Hey Barr1e,

No bother, first time I've visited too. TBH I was more interested in the Gun site which is why I visited Mugdock however I'm soo glad I saw the castle, will be back for sure..

Heres some tonemapped versions..









Was aiming for a dark look, think I got it. Again not to everyones tastes.

Cheers
Gar

[Ellie]

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Crikey, you do some powerful things to your pictures. Amazing stuff.

[theMusicMan]

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Crikey, you do some powerful things to your pictures. Amazing stuff.

Hey Ellie - have a look at this...

http://www.hdrsoft.com/

[Ellie]

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Oh you rotter!

I was just getting my head round the idea of mono conversion and now you throw this at me too! ... Later, I will try it, but not just yet

[theMusicMan]

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Hi John,

No rush at all bud. If you need any vinyl graphics, decals, custom T Shirts etc give us a shout, I'll be more than happy to help

oooh... now there's an interesting proposition. Is this what you do Garrie...? Any more info...?

[Garrie]

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oooh... now there's an interesting proposition. Is this what you do Garrie...? Any more info...?

Hi John.

Yeah I'm a signmaker, I own my own little sign shop that I run part time at the moment, intend to go full time very shortly

We produce all sorts of Vinyl graphics, Windows, Vehicles (Commercial and Motorsport), Signs, Tray signs, flat cut letters and decals etc. We also produce T Shirts using vinyl flex (not screen printed, Vinyl flex is a better quality of print). We have 2 cutters/plotters (610mm and 1220mm), A massive heat press however we don't currently own a digital printer, all our digital jobs get subbed out to a local company.

I was thinking of PM'ing Ian and advising that we can produce some E-Group/E-System car stickers/decals or lens hood decals for you guys.

Cheers
Gar