| All images by Rick Davenport All Rights Reserved |
| After Six Photography |
Special Effects
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| Even during the film days, many a photographer would manipulate images in the dark room and use techniques that would enhance the quality of their images. It's a lot faster to apply these effects in the digital darkroom and there's a lot of software out there to help us along. |
| The first set are images that have been Draganized through an action in Photoshop CS2. The pictures on the left are before the effect was applied and the second after the application. Click here to learn more about Andrzej Dragan. |
| The next set of images are composed from 3-5 different images at various shutter speeds and then run through a "High Dynamic Range (HDR)" program where you align the images, adjust the tonal range and add other effects to enhance image. I've used CS2, Photomatix and Dynamic Pro in my HDR work each giving different results. Dynamic Pro and Photomatix both have trial versions if you want to try them out for yourself. |
| This effect I sometimes use is part of an infra red action, but I don't care for the final outcome so I stop it at mid point to get this effect. |
| This effect comes from using two images and processing them using Photo Merge in Adobe's CS2. |
