{"id":1344,"date":"2021-09-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:52:40","slug":"schooner-gloucester-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/schooner-gloucester-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Schooner at Gloucester Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751_paint-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1345\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1345\" class=\"wp-image-1345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751_paint-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751_paint-340x292.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751_paint-768x659.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751_paint.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1346\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1346\" class=\"wp-image-1346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751-340x285.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GloucI_1751.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to visiting Gloucester this weekend, I also ported all my photography and tools to a new computer.  As I imported new images from a camera drone, I took the new computer on a test drive to verify that my tools were all in good order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This scene had both very bright highlights and very dark shadows; I doubted that a single exposure could contain both the highlights and shadows.  As you likely know, such situations are known as high dynamic range (HDR).  I captured a bracket of three exposures.  In retrospect, it was a wise choice.  The middle exposure was spot on, however the foreground was nearly black and some background highlights were blown out &#8211; white boats and white buildings. The darker exposure provided correction for the blown-out highlights. The lightest exposure was used to replace the black foreground water with dark-blue water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, I processed each of the three in Lightroom and then combined them together using Photoshop. From Lightroom, open the three images using &#8220;Edit In&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;Open As Layers In Photoshop&#8221;. Once opened in Photoshop, select all three layers and choose &#8220;Edit&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;Auto-Align layers&#8221;. Here, there are six Projection options; I chose &#8220;Reposition&#8221; because the three images were identical composition that varied only by exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A selection of the highlights was applied as a layer mask on the darkest layer, such that only the highlights are used from that layer.  A selection of the foreground dark water was applied as a layer mask to the brightest layer such that the foreground is lightened.  The resulting image is shown here on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, I applied three image filters by Alien Skin. First was Bokeh, to blur the image &#8211; except for the schooner. Then I used two different variations of Snap-Art. All this was done through Photoshop. Upon saving all of this (TIFF file), I was back in Lightroom. Judicious use of brightness, clarity, and color saturation enhanced the simulated brush strokes. The end result is shown here on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there, I applied three image filters by Alien Skin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,125,54,20,180,6],"tags":[234,233,232,231,229,230],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerialphotography","category-drone","category-newengland","category-photo","category-photo-software","category-photoshop","tag-aerial-drone-photography","tag-harbor","tag-sailboat-photo","tag-sailing","tag-schooner","tag-tall-ship-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}