Evaluation of HDR

I enjoyed this photo shoot but not for the HDR techniques. This assignment made us focus more on buildings and subjects that are more city related. For this i focused on the obscure angles in the town of Jerome that might not normally be touched when a tourist goes through the small mining town.

The First one that I took was an old fire escape on the side of a biker bar and i really enjoy this one because on not only the symmetry that is in this photo but the leading lines and dynamic angle.

The other one i have is from a back alley that is restricted (technically) from the public and i got a picture of an old school bus and a rustic building. I love this picture for the aesthetic of it and the fact that this is something that i would love to own and live around. The dynamic angle and color contrast between the building and bus are what i feel makes this photo.

Displacement in 10 easy steps

Displacement Maps in 10 easy steps

1. Get a picture of your subject

2. Get a picture of the texture you want

3. Open them both in photoshop 

4. After you are done with that make a copy of your subject by dragging it down to the new layer button

5. Desaturate the copy of your subject by going to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate

6. After you desturate the copy you can save it then drag that layer to the garbage

7.Once you just have your original two image drags and drop the texture layer over on top of your subject image

8.Set the blending mode of the texture to overlay and then go to filter>distort>displace you will get a pop up that has you choose a picture and you will grab the desaturated image that you saved from earlier.

9. Create a mask over the texture layer and erase all of the texture you are not using using the pen tool, remember to get the eyes too

10. Once you are done with that save your image because you now have your first displacement map