Quagga – Rare Books and Art by awefaul
A typical street scene at Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, where the Oak trees in winter cast crazy shadows over the white buildings and sidewalks.
It is a real challenge to keep the camera steady for candid pictures but I am taking lessons from those mime artists that strike a pose and make like a statue. Then it is a further challenge to get detail in the white walls and deep shadows. I used Photomatix for tone mapping the tree exposure (-2, -1, 0) and Photoshop CS5 to get the maximum detail.
Another HDR taken against the light:
Comments
A really stunning pic, well done Awefaul!
Thank you so much. Now that I have looked at your watercolours, I wonder if the same soft quality in this picture wasn’t what attracted you. Perhaps soft ‘transparent’ colours is something to explore in HDR.
– awefaul
Stunning. You captured that certain stunning magic that Stellenbosch has, a place I lived in as my children were schooled there. Beautiful! x
Thank you. For me Stellenbosch is where the grass is greener on this side of the fence. This one, and many others, were taken just twenty minutes from where I live on a morning stroll.
– awefaul