Satellite Down

Just a 100 meters or so from the paintball battlefields, we spotted this downed Satellite (of the Plymouth variety), which reminded me of the of the movie ‘Terminator’. Â Unfortunately, we were outgunned because we didn’t find a heavy paintball machine gun mounted up on this ride (hmm, I wonder if that’s possible). Â If you look at the “Before” photo further down the page, you’ll find a few notes of things I believe key to making a tonemapped image look right. Â And as an added bit of interest, the third photo down shows a zoomed in view of some of the detail you can find while working your images.

AFTER - The way I envision the shot

BEFORE - Straight out of Photomatx Pro. Needs some work!

It's fun to explore the little details

Excellent post Jacques. The car is a great find and the visual of the flaws in a tone mapped image is very telling! Awesome work!

Nice, Jacques. I like how you’ve pointed to areas you’d like to address. Great finished shot, too!

GReat image and great post showing how you arrived there

Thanks guys. I might do things like this more often, providing some images (or videos) of my thoughts along the way to my finished photos.