Christmas door

This shot was not as easy as I first thought because of the extremity of colour. There are deep reds in the berries and light creams on the baubles. This posed a lighting problem. Because of this I decided to do two exposures, one for each. This can be seen in the first two images.

Layer 1



Layer 2




The final image is both f the layers flattened together. The background layer contained the first image. The top layer was used to add extra light onto the berries towards the bottom of the image. I have put a mask around all of this and erased the other layer leaving the rest of the background layer to show through.

The end result can be seen below




F20
1/125
100 ISO