Gallery: Man & NaturePosted August 8, 201254 views2 comments
Sunset over Seal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada.
Five shot HDR assembled in Photomatix Pro and completed in Photoshop.
Comments
2 comments
Comment posted by Lon Overacker on August 9, 2012 at 1:31 AM
Stan,
Welcome to NPN! Nice first post and I really like the calming reflection of color here. You also have a nice arrangement of rock element to break up the reflection. I'm not a digital or hdr expert by any stretch, but sometimes I wonder why such a process would be needed sometimes. I'm old school too and wonder why the light in this situation wouldn't work in a single exposure... but that's just a side commentary, I think your processing works well.
I hate to do this on your first post, but considering the dock or whatever kind of structure that is, it's a fairly prominent element of the "hand of man," and so after posting my comments I'm going to move this to the Man & Nature Gallery. If you have any questions don't hesitate to send a note to one of us moderators. Hope you understand.
Thanks for posting and we look forward to your images and participation in the galleries and discussion forums.
Lon
Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Comment posted by Stan Wojtaszek on August 9, 2012 at 7:58 PM
Thanks a lot for dropping by (and setting me straight), Lon.
The reason I resorted to HDR, in this shot, are twofold.
First, the contrast was pretty high between the reflection in the water and the shadows in the rocks. I could hold detail in either the reflections or the rocks but not both. Even with this, there's a wee bit more noise in the shadows than I would like to see.
The second reason is quite simple: I'd owned Photomatix for a couple of weeks, or so, when I took this image and I was trying to figure it out.
Registered on August 6, 2012, 21 Posts, 86 Comments
Comments
2 commentsWelcome to NPN! Nice first post and I really like the calming reflection of color here. You also have a nice arrangement of rock element to break up the reflection. I'm not a digital or hdr expert by any stretch, but sometimes I wonder why such a process would be needed sometimes. I'm old school too and wonder why the light in this situation wouldn't work in a single exposure... but that's just a side commentary, I think your processing works well.
I hate to do this on your first post, but considering the dock or whatever kind of structure that is, it's a fairly prominent element of the "hand of man," and so after posting my comments I'm going to move this to the Man & Nature Gallery. If you have any questions don't hesitate to send a note to one of us moderators. Hope you understand.
Thanks for posting and we look forward to your images and participation in the galleries and discussion forums.
Lon
The reason I resorted to HDR, in this shot, are twofold.
First, the contrast was pretty high between the reflection in the water and the shadows in the rocks. I could hold detail in either the reflections or the rocks but not both. Even with this, there's a wee bit more noise in the shadows than I would like to see.
The second reason is quite simple: I'd owned Photomatix for a couple of weeks, or so, when I took this image and I was trying to figure it out.