AN EXAMPLE FROM MY LESSONS

THE UMPQUA BANK BUILDING, EUREKA, 2012, or SILENT SENTINELS

I took this earlier this year.  I had not really put the finishing touches on it then. Yesterday, I decided to look at it again by working it in Photoshop as an HDR image. As per my usual work flow, I did the remaining aspects in Lightroom-4.

I actually printed the earlier version of this some months back, and I even exhibited it in a judged show. It did not win any awards, but I understand that the judge liked  the image, but thought that the trees were too close to the top of the composition. I corrected that in this rendition, and I completely reworked the luminance values in almost every aspect.