Gallery: LandscapePosted August 4, 201050 views3 comments
Processed with PS5 and Photomatix HDR.
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Comment posted by Stan Rose on August 4, 2010 at 10:40 PM
This is an interesting comp--busy, but interesting...and the light is real nice. I like the scene and mood. I have two reservations; the color cast is a bit funky--looks a bit too yellow/green. Also, when i first looked at it i thought the reflection in the mid lhs was from the tree up front--and this was freaking me out! Basically, theres a seperation problem between the fg and bg, and im not sure how to solve that--maybe tweaking the HDR might help, or maybe it needed a different angle to make it clear what the subjects are here. Nevertheless, its a cool shot and keeps me looking!
Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments
Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on August 5, 2010 at 12:50 AM
Looks pretty nice to me over all. It doesn't have as strong an hdr look as many hdr's do. That's a good thing.
Chris
Registered on March 13, 2007, 500 Posts, 8365 Comments
Comment posted by Lon Overacker on August 5, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Todd,
From the same shoot I'm guessing... :-) I like the sky and the light is very nice as well. To me, the processing looks just a tad more processed than the previous image from this area. I know the other one was shooting away from the sun and this one is more towards it, probably creating more contrast and thus the need for more expanded hdr process.
Compositionally, this is even a bit more busy than your previous image. That one was a bit more open, but I think I did comment that you tried to include too much.... So here we have one that isn't as open and is a bit more intimate. What I would be looking for here is some way to isolate or be able to separate that gnarly tree from it's surroundings. Although you haven't described anything, so I can only guess, I'm guessing that you were very interested in this tree - it looks like a great tree. Hard to say without standing there as to how you could isolate and separate; it's marshy and you probably don't have many options unless you've got hip waders or something.
The sky looks great and this looks like aplace with great potential. I'm wondering if you can work the open water, reeds and some nice reflections...
Lon
Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
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From the same shoot I'm guessing... :-) I like the sky and the light is very nice as well. To me, the processing looks just a tad more processed than the previous image from this area. I know the other one was shooting away from the sun and this one is more towards it, probably creating more contrast and thus the need for more expanded hdr process.
Compositionally, this is even a bit more busy than your previous image. That one was a bit more open, but I think I did comment that you tried to include too much.... So here we have one that isn't as open and is a bit more intimate. What I would be looking for here is some way to isolate or be able to separate that gnarly tree from it's surroundings. Although you haven't described anything, so I can only guess, I'm guessing that you were very interested in this tree - it looks like a great tree. Hard to say without standing there as to how you could isolate and separate; it's marshy and you probably don't have many options unless you've got hip waders or something.
The sky looks great and this looks like aplace with great potential. I'm wondering if you can work the open water, reeds and some nice reflections...
Lon