HDR along Railtrail

DonRicklin

Shot yesterday while hiking the Mass Central Railtrail.



C&C welcome,

Don

red_zone

If you hadn't said it was HDR I might not have known. The right side of the photo is a little hot, and the shadows under the tree limbs are still underexposed, but I think that just makes it look more realistic.

As for the framing, there's a lot of scrubby vegetation and no clear focus. The top 1/3 is underside of tree branches, which obscure parts of that stone building on the other bank, and the tree that's growing up on this side of the bank separates the dam from the building, and isn't a very interesting itself. This has a lot of potential, but I'd like to see you get closer. I might have done a couple of things - played with getting different angles of the dam only, trying to get the flowers in the right into the foreground, and shot a few of just the building and the building with a bit of the dam, but either from another angle or right down next to (or in) the water.

I bet it's spectacular at dawn or dusk - but hiking is kind of like that - you can't always make the hike and the light coincide.

DonRicklin

HDR along Railtrail
Red_zone, thank you for looking and commenting. This was a three image HDR in close quarters with trees and a fence limiting viewing options and angles.

I did take one slightly different view and will look at cropping.

I was going for not grunge, realistic HDR.

Don

red_zone

well, i guess fences are supposed to get in the way! It's definitely a believable HDR and not overdone!