St Elmo Colorado

Jasonpnyc

Jasonpnyc Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009 in Landscapes

What you guys thinks. Any helpful tips

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NeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

I love the treatment of the building and the background in the first. Not so much the sky.

In both there is an odd lack of perspective, the buildings look like illustrations stuck on.

Seems like a good location for some interesting antique textures.

Quite nicely balanced post work which gets the feeling across. Did you use a plugin?

Maybe give each pic a main focus and compose around that, eg in the first, the leaning white picket fence. Vary DOF?

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thapamd Registered Users Posts: 1,722 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

Beautiful scenes!

Shoot in RAW because memory is cheap but memories are priceless.

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dlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

Really like the first HDR shot. Well done

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CWSkopec Registered Users Posts: 1,325 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

Great first post, Jason!

I haven't figured out the whole HDR business myself, so I can't help much on the processing, but I can tell you it looks great!

In the second one, it looks like you've got a slight bit of distortion, but that might very well be the building itself.

Nice work and Welcome!

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hawkeye978 Registered Users Posts: 1,218 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

I like the first, and I agree the skies a little odd. But that's what you get with HDR and a blue sky, it turns it gray. One technique that can be used is to take the EV 0 exposure and use it as a separate layer in Photoshop. Then mask the HDR sky and let the blue sky completely or partially through.

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Swartzy Registered Users Posts: 3,293 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

I like both of them very much. So often everyone is trying to make HDR look like "what was there" but have always been partial to the overly HDR look...it's an art form unlike something out of the camera. Sure, we could use HDR to blend both highlights/shadows but heck, this style gives it a cool edge

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Jasonpnyc Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

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rwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

Swartzy wrote:

I like both of them very much. So often everyone is trying to make HDR look like "what was there" but have always been partial to the overly HDR look...it's an art form unlike something out of the camera. Sure, we could use HDR to blend both highlights/shadows but heck, this style gives it a cool edge

+1

Exactly my thoughts!

St. Elmo looks here just like it did the last time I was up there, 2 years ago. Fantastic part of this world

Randy
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rwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins

June 10, 2009 edited June 10, 2009

Swartzy wrote:

I like both of them very much. So often everyone is trying to make HDR look like "what was there" but have always been partial to the overly HDR look...it's an art form unlike something out of the camera. Sure, we could use HDR to blend both highlights/shadows but heck, this style gives it a cool edge

+1 ~ I agree completely!

St. Elmo looks just like it did the last time I was there, 2 years ago.

Randy
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