Comments for Anvil Image: San Francisco Photography and HDR Images

Comment on Crushdown in HDR at the Gate by Caitlyn Kneeshaw

Caitlyn Kneeshaw — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:28:53 +0000

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Comment on Save Time with Shortcut Keys for Adobe Lightroom by Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:49:38 +0000

Did you click on the image to make it larger? It’s 1024px on the longest side. Also, I’ll have poster size prints available soon…

-joe

Comment on Save Time with Shortcut Keys for Adobe Lightroom by Reev

Reev — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:06:22 +0000

The image guide is a bit small. Wish you would upload a bigger one.

Comment on No Way Home – Image Deconstructed by Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:28:38 +0000

Good call… I could probably add a little more shadow around his foot. Looking at how the light falls on the top of his shoe, it looks like the area under the arch of his foot could use some shading. Thanks for looking out, I’ll keep that in mind more next time!

Comment on No Way Home – Image Deconstructed by Miles Baltrusaitis

Miles Baltrusaitis — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:16:04 +0000

Just stumbled onto this from your post about lightroom keyboard shortcuts.

Very impressed with the setup and the compositing elements on this. Did not realize that you did the scene first and added Toby later. After seeing it deconstructed, kinda feels like his foot is floating but that may just be me.

Anyway, mucho impressed.

Comment on No Way Home – Image Deconstructed by Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:54:38 +0000

I layered in the image of Toby below the layers of the environment and brought him in using a mask. Some of the tricky things about doing it are ambient light color temperature and making sure to include the shadows. I usually use a really soft brush with the opacity turned down (about 10-20%) to blend, but in some cases where there is a hard edge, I’ll create a selection from a path using the pen tool to brush right up to a hard edge.

Comment on No Way Home – Image Deconstructed by Ratul Maiti

Ratul Maiti — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:50:49 +0000

Really liked your process flow and the explanation. I Would still like to see the steps you follow to bring Toby into the adjusted tonemapped image. Did you just mask it in or cut it out and place it. I always have a hard time if I try to blend the way you mentioned. Thanks.

Comment on Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Fireworks by Sam

Sam — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:45:33 +0000

It’s an awesome photo! I wish I could have been there. Which camera and lens did you use, what were the settings, etc? Great job!

Comment on Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Fireworks by Dennis Jenders

Dennis Jenders — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:01:46 +0000

Such a great photo. Would love a bit more information about the settings and exposure to understand how you captured it so wonderfully.

Comment on Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Fireworks by Joe

Joe — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:54:29 +0000

Thanks Peter! Take a look at Digimarc. There's some interesting technology there....