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On the Bench
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On the Bench
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Seaside bench at Saltburn-by-the-sea
Pile of Pigs
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Pile of Pigs
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery
Bacon in the making? ;)
Old Bentley
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Old Bentley
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery
Taken with my HTC Desire
Quarry Skyline
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Quarry Skyline on the North Yorkshire Dales
Alastair Montgomery’s Photography
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Dales View from Toft Gate Lime Kiln
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View over the Dales from Toft Gate Lime Kiln
Alastair Montgomery’s Photography
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Moss and Lichen
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Moss and Lichen growing on a dry stone wall near Kilnsey, North Yorkshire.
Alastair Montgomery’s Photography
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Toft Gate Lime Kiln Close Up
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Close up shot of the Toft Gate Lime Kiln in the North Yorkshire Dales.
Alastair Montgomery’s Photography
Main Page My Shop at Zazzle DeviantArt Account Red Bubble Account
Hanging on
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Hanging on
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery
Toft Gate Lime Kiln
Experiments in HDR
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Here is my first real attempt at an HDR image, taken from three shot with a 1.3+- exposure bracketing.
The foreground is a bit blurry as the wind was moving the plants and I wasn’t using a tripod, notes for next time.
- After converting from the RAW files I arranged the three images as separate layers in Photoshop.
- The layers where arranged as +1.3 exposure,normal,-1.3.
- Then I added layer masks to the top two layers.
- Painting on the top layer mask I removed the “burnt out” sections from the top layers so the correctly exposed section from the layer below showed through.
- I repeated this again on the second layer.
- I ran a low Gaussian blur on the layer masks to soften the edges of the masks to reduce the halo effect.
- Then I merge each layer into the one below to create the finished image.
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Ripon Sunset Clouds
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Ripon Sunset Clouds
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