I was at PhotoshopWorld last week in Boston and sat in on Rick Sammons Plug-in class as he showed a software program called Topaz that can give you a HDR effect with only one shot instead of taking three or more. After the session was done I went down to the trade show and brought the program. I have not had much time to play with it, but did try it on an image I use in the surreal class I teach. I wanted the grunge look and with messing around with the different sliders and very little time I was able to create this version of my cyborg image. From what I have seen so far it looks as if you could enhance an photo and bring out detail without giving it that illustrative or grunge look, I let you know how that goes when I have some time next week.
By the way I showed Rick some of my HDR photos and he liked them so much, he asked me to be the Artist of the month on his web site: Plugin experance. Take a look and see some of the other plug-in out there. Here is the link: www.pluginexperience.com/Portfolio.html
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Randy is an architectural and fine art photographer, located in Florida. He is an instructor of photography, Photoshop and Lightroom at the Morean Art Center. Randy has lectured at the state Florida Professional Photographer convention, as well as around the state.
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