Not having the internet working properly has been a little depressing.  Other things have been happening as well and I am asking myself those questions of why do I do this.  When I realised it was Friday and I would have to find an image to rework, I didn’t feel very inspired.  I went though a lot of stuff, and came up with this one.

I think the last time I showed this was in the post I wrote about photographing architecture a week or so back.  I suppose there isn’t a lot wrong with it, but as with most of the HDR images I did around this time I did tend to over saturate the colours.  I wondered what it would be like if I redid the HDR processing and then did some more work in the image.  The original post for this was from a field trip back in March, you can see the post here.

The HDR’s were all done with Photomatix Pro, so the same program for both, but the second time I tried to make it more realistic.  Here let me show you.

You can’t really tell from this rework what the HDR did look like, but one of the things I wanted to do was put more emphasis on the isle of the church and the Altar at the end.  I think the first one does that too, but I found the pews on the left side a little too distracting.

I have done quite a bit of layering with this one and I have highlighted certain parts and darkened others.  I think you still get a sense of the Cathedral, but I hope you just go to the end of it.

I was unsure if this constituted a real rework, so I have done another one for you today.  It is also from the Cathedral, but from a different time.  I first posted it in a post called Worshiping Places back in February.

This was an interesting image, I always thought.  The man repairing the floor in St Paul’s Cathedral.  I thought it was great, but when I did the HDR image, I wasn’t too sure about the colours.  It has that greyness about it that many images have when people start doing HDR images.  It has a surreal quality.  The man’s hand is also sort of ghost like because I didn’t know how to stop the ghosting in Photoshop.

The second time around, I’ve processed it in Photomatix Pro and the ghosting hand is gone, here take a look.

To me this is more realistic and his hand looks so much better.  There is more of a solidness to it.  I hope you agree.  That is pretty much all I did to it, just redid the HDR process and changed the curves a little.

So two for one, both reworks done differently.  I do love reworking these images.  I wonder if I will ever do them again.

I am really hoping to get out this weekend and get some images done, I have a couple of places I really want to visit, so will have to see how I go.  Hope you have a great weekend as well.