Central Texas Highland Lakes Area

jstpeterjstpeter Registered Users Posts: 143 Major grins
edited January 6, 2009 in Landscapes
Spent the other day with the family out and about around the highland lakes in Central Texas. Here are some different shots from our day trip. All of these places were within 30 minutes of one another!

1) Longhorn Caverns
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2) House at Longhorn Cavern State Park
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3) Inks Lake State Park

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4) Lake Buchannan
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5) And we ended the day with a sunset at Canyon of the Eagles Lodge
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  • Shootin1stShootin1st Registered Users Posts: 288 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2009
    Nice stuff. Really like 1 and 3.

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  • jstpeterjstpeter Registered Users Posts: 143 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2009
    Shootin thanks for the comments!
    Would love to hear from you on my blog, or website!
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  • Tom AbbottTom Abbott Registered Users Posts: 101 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    Post-processing
    These are awesome. Can you share your post-processing steps?? Thanks!
  • jstpeterjstpeter Registered Users Posts: 143 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    Tom,

    Glad you like them. These are all bracketed shots. I then process in a HDR software called Photomatix, followed by sharpening and levels in PS. If you need more details just let me know.
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  • jeffmeyersjeffmeyers Registered Users Posts: 1,535 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    These are all good shots, but I think the HDR effect is a bit much on most of them. #1 seems to work. But the others are pushed just a little too far, IMHO.

    So #2 is almost "glittery" because of there are so many small tonal transitions and they are all pretty drastic.

    #3 is better. But notice the haloing artifacts on the trees that protrude into the sky.

    You also have severe haloing on the tree in the right on #4. And they sky on #4 has all sorts of artifacts because it's been pushed too far.

    I think you could tone down the HDR effect and have really good shots here.
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  • ErbemanErbeman Registered Users Posts: 926 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2009
    jeffmeyers wrote:
    These are all good shots, but I think the HDR effect is a bit much on most of them. #1 seems to work. But the others are pushed just a little too far, IMHO.

    So #2 is almost "glittery" because of there are so many small tonal transitions and they are all pretty drastic.

    #3 is better. But notice the haloing artifacts on the trees that protrude into the sky.

    You also have severe haloing on the tree in the right on #4. And they sky on #4 has all sorts of artifacts because it's been pushed too far.

    I think you could tone down the HDR effect and have really good shots here.

    I agree with Jeff here. HDR is a nice effect in moderation. I think you just went a bit overboard with these. Less is more with HDR IMO. Still nice pics however.
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