Azay le Rideau Chateau Reflection HDR
The Shot
Built on the foundations of a medieval fortress in the heart of Touraine, on the River Indre a tributary of the Loire the Chteau d'Azay-le-Rideau is the creation of a wealthy financier of Franois I, Gilles de Berthelot. Standing in the centre of a park, this masterpiece of 16th-century architecture has preserved, with the passing years, all the refinement, elegance and grace of an exceptional Renaissance chteau.
The river was diverted to form a moat. In later years the water flow was carefully controlled in order to produce a perfect reflection of the Chateau. The structure is on the Unesco World Heritage list.
Taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle Zoom at 10mm. Taken hand held with auto bracketing for HDR. 3 raw images 2EV spacing. Opened in Photoshop first and each image noise reduced with Noiseware Pro and saved as tiffs.
Photomatix
3 Tiffs outputted in Photomatix to detail enhancer. Click the Camera make top right to see exif information and details of settings used. A second version was made using the Fusion option
Photoshop
The Tonemapped image was opened as a base. The Fused image was opened selected and copied as layer. Foreground masked off and brush used so the fused image only shows for the highlight areas in the clouds and some parts of the sky where these were burnt out.
The original image -2EV was opened and copied as a layer with layer mask with varying opacity so it showed in the facing of the Chateau to bring more detail into highlights
General adjustments in levels and curves to enhance.
Vibrance adjustment layer
Hue/Saturation layer reds and yellows to increase saturation a little in the windows.
Hue/Saturation layer greens to reduce saturation a little in the greenery
Noiseware Pro
Unsharp Mask
Resources
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