Powfoot Golf Course

canon400d

An HDR shot of Powfoot Golf Course. I am still learning this HDR so your comments are more than welcome.
Regards
Bob

GOLDENORFE

nice bob, maybe de -saturate a touch.
how about darkening the s shape in lawn to make more pronounced?
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Jack'll do

GOLDENORFE wrote:

nice bob, maybe de -saturate a touch.
how about darkening the s shape in lawn to make more pronounced?
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

The color of the grass and particularly the rainbow are too unrealistic. I'd also level roof of the house.

canon400d

Jack'll do wrote:

The color of the grass and particularly the rainbow are too unrealistic. I'd also level roof of the house.

Thanks Phil I will try that just seen the 'S' in the grass.
Yes Jack I would agree about the unrealistic colours. I tend to find this with my HDR shots after Photomatix.
Regards
Bob

canon400d

canon400d wrote:

An HDR shot of Powfoot Golf Course. I am still learning this HDR so your comments are more than welcome.
Regards
Bob

Is that any straighter Jack. I tried to darken the grass with the Highlights/Shaddows but it hasn't changed it much.
Regards
Bob

Jack'll do

Hi Bob
The roof is much better now. To deal with the grass you need to use a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Then to selectively darken the right portion of the grass duplicate the background layer, use brightness/contrast adj. layer to darken the whole original bg layer, add a vector mask to the duplicate layer (make sure the mask is white). If the mask is black, Cmd_I or for PC Cntrl_I, to change to white. Now click on the mask then use the brush tool to paint the portion you want darker.

I took the liberty to adjust using these methods. In Hue/Sat I adjusted green, yellow, and magenta (drop down menu) as follows.
Green H +27 S -26
Yellows H +13 S -29
Magenta H 0 S -52

After flattening the image, I applied high pass filter (radius 0.8) and ended up with this.

canon400d

Jack'll do wrote:

Hi Bob
The roof is much better now. To deal with the grass you need to use a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Then to selectively darken the right portion of the grass duplicate the background layer, use brightness/contrast adj. layer to darken the whole original bg layer, add a vector mask to the duplicate layer (make sure the mask is white). If the mask is black, Cmd_I or for PC Cntrl_I, to change to white. Now click on the mask then use the brush tool to paint the portion you want darker.

I took the liberty to adjust using these methods. In Hue/Sat I adjusted green, yellow, and magenta (drop down menu) as follows.
Green H +27 S -26
Yellows H +13 S -29
Magenta H 0 S -52

After flattening the image, I applied high pass filter (radius 0.8) and ended up with this.

OMG Jack that is brilliant. I understand and can follow exactly what you have said but YES you have improved the image tremendously. Thanks I will go back to the drawing board but I bet once againm with another image I will have to rely on you to put the finishing touches to it.
Regards
Bob