Uploads from Pete Halewood, tagged petehalewoodphotography

The Crypt Beneath Winchester Cathedral

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:27:11 -0700

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Timeless Torcello

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:27:14 -0700

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Justice for the 96

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:27:11 -0700

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The one and only original! Accept no imitations, they are out there!

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The Swan Hotel

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:27:14 -0700

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Jerusalem

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:29:12 -0800

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A 'semi-HDR' as I have named it on my blog petehalewood.blogspot.com. This photo mixes elements of a single RAW image combined with an HDR picture taken from that single image.

Taken from the spectacular Mount of Olives, this gave a wonderful view of the Old City of Jerusalem.

The Spirit of Autumn

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:45:42 -0700

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A case of being in the right place at the right time! This is a 5 shot HDR, pictured at St. Mary's Church in Thatcham. You can read more about this story on my blog petehalewood.blogspot.com.

Miami Nights

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:27:12 -0700

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Rural Poland

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:27:13 -0700

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Miami Nights

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:49:08 -0700

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This is a traditional 3 shot HDR, taken in manual mode, and using the hotel balcony as a makeshift tripod, having not been able to take one out there myself. Processing a picture like this is a lot of fun, even after the Photomatix stage, because you can pick the best bits to include in the picture from the 2 HDR's I created (one de-ghosted and one not) and the original RAW files.

The Swan Hotel, Bibury

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:38:39 -0700

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This is a standard 3 shot HDR picture, processed in Lightroom, Photomatix, Photoshop and Nik Color Efex Pro. Most adjustments, dodging and burning and stuff was done in Lightroom, with some spot-healing done in Photoshop. When using Photomatix these days, I would recommend turning down the Luminosity slider (I used to always have this fully to the right by default). A lot of HDR pictures these days are presented as more realistic, rather than the over-cooked HDR look there used to be, and I think that has a lot to do with turning down the luminosity slider.

The Basilica

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:31:10 -0800

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I've taken many pictures of The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krzeszow (south-west Poland). This is my favourite though.

3 shot HDR

The Crypt Beneath Winchester Cathedral

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:14:38 -0800

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This is exactly what the title says. One of the oldest parts of the historic Winchester Cathedral, the crypt dates back to the Norman times. It's a wonderful place to visit within the Cathedral and was adorned with this sculpture (Sound II by Anthony Gormley) in 1986. Like yesterday's picture, I wasn't able to take a tripod in here, but fortunately there was a solid metal fence separating visitors and the water, which proved a useful stabiliser whilst firing off 3 bracketed shots. In the end though, I chose to use 1 single RAW file to create the HDR, as this simply was the sharpest image possible.

The Altar

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:27:48 -0800

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This is the altar that lies within one of England's most majestic (and oldest) cathedrals, Winchester Cathedral. The cathedral may already look huge from this vantage point but this is already around three quarters (probably more) of the way in.

Jane Austen is buried within Winchester Cathedral - she is (was) a Hampshire person like me.

3 shot HDR taken hand-held (no tripods and all that), so I was quite pleased how this turned out.

An Enchanting Part of Poland

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:59:35 -0800

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It is has been quite a long time in the making this picture, even the last day or so I have been uploading to my HalewoodPhotographic.com site and then reloading it, because I have made tiny adjustments I think will improve it. I know it can be a dangerous game spending too long processing a picture, but in the end if your heart is telling you it can be improved, then it's best to go with it.

This is a single image taken hand-held from near the top of a hill that overlooks the village of Krzeszow in Poland. The wonderful (and huge!) holy building you can see in the picture, is the Basilica of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Lighthouse at Beachy Head

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:17:54 -0700

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This picture is more a combination of HDR and texture, than just texture itself. Although the picture in itself was good (and to most old school photographers, probably how they would say it should have been), I wanted to make it a bit more interesting and make it stand out a bit more. Creating an HDR (from a single RAW file), layer masking it with aspects of the original RAW image, and then gently blending in a texture, helped me get the look I was after with this scene.

Wilton House

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:10:09 -0700

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A 3 shot HDR of the front of Wilton House in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

HDR Waterfall

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:10:08 -0700

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A 3 shot HDR taken of this waterfall within the grounds of Hever Castle in Kent.

A Beautiful Path

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:10:08 -0700

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A 3 shot HDR taken within the grounds of Hever Castle in Kent.

Apple Market

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:10:07 -0700

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A 3 shot HDR taken of this scene at the Apple Market in Covent Garden, London.

Eastbourne Pier at Night

nobody@flickr.com (Pete Halewood) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:17:16 -0700

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As perhaps you can tell I have used 2 textures for this picture here. First of all, I have used a sea texture (from a photo I took at Durdle Door last year) for the sea itself. Mixing the smooth sea with the sea texture gave it this impressionist kind of look that I really like. I was going to use the sea texture for the whole picture but I felt it didn't work so well with the sky, so I used a second texture, a rock from the Czech Republic.

It really isn't that difficult to blend textures in, you simply have your main picture as 1 layer and the texture as another and then reduce the opacity to about 50% (or however much you like) and then change the blend mode to Overlay, which I feel works the best for textures. You can then use the Eraser tool, again at whatever opacity you feel works best, to eliminate parts of the texture where you do not feel it is necessary (for instance in this picture I kept the sand in the lit foreground largely texture-free). I don't do many tutorials, but I hope that small one helps!