Spooky HDR

Proudfoto

Had a weird weather night, with fog, hail, lightening... the church a few blocks away was looming in the fog and I thought it would be a cool chance to dive into HDR (5 exposures). I did add a gradient and lowered the exposure a bit more in LR.

senorjax

Nice and moody. I think it would look better if the image was sharper. A tripod is pretty much a neccessity for something like this.

Proudfoto

senorjax wrote: »

Nice and moody. I think it would look better if the image was sharper. A tripod is pretty much a neccessity for something like this.

I was disappointed with the sharpness also, I was on a tripod but I think my building was actually shaking during this storm. Some of the exposures were 20 to 30 seconds.

HDRoamer

Like it. I think the softness adds to the ghostly factor and effect.

Proudfoto

HDRoamer wrote: »

Like it. I think the softness adds to the ghostly factor and effect.

Thanks HDR, it's growing on me, the more I look at it.

Rob Pauza

Nice image. Artistically speaking, I would probably prefer it to be a little sharper but it does have a unique "ghostly" glow to the image. I absolutely love that you got out with the camera during that bad weather and did something creative instead of sitting on your butt like me. Bravo.

-Rob

Dogdots

I agree it's very moody and even ghostly. The blue/greenish lighting has a nice effect in this photo.

DaddyO

Interesting. Maybe soft. Kinda maybe. Nice effort at it. Respect that work.

GrfxMedia

Nice, I don't mind the softness. Like others I think it adds to the shot, I find sometimes our brains tell us edges should be sharp and try to convince us it's wrong if they are not, but this shot works for me.

DaddyO

Very true about that.