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Interior, Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson Az


 
  Interior, Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson Az
Interior, Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson Az

Stephen Shoff

 
 
 

Stephen Shoff
 

This image is from a trip to Tucson last year. It is the interior of one of the mission's domes. I'm looking for critique and assistance on the best way to accomplish my goals. The image has some nice light quality but looks flat without any of the architectural contours. I've tried to increase the light directionality as a tool for separating the surfaces and creating depth.

This is a 3-image HDR to get both the brights in the window and the darks in the paintings. After merging in HDR, I saved it as a .tiff file and imported it into ACR. All the edits have been done in ACR. I used about 5 different adjustment brushes to try to shape the light. I have the NIK suite at my disposal along with ACR and CS6.

How could this be done better?


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September 03, 2013

 

Stephen Shoff
 
 
 

Stephen Shoff

 
 
For reference, here is unadjusted JPG of the normally exposed image before the +/1 2EV were taken.


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September 03, 2013

 
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