El Cotillo light house fuerteventura hdr

skippy77

this is el cotillo light house located on the west coast of fuerteventura the area has large lagoons and a great surf beach

skippy77

wow is it that bad 2 days not a single comment o.k so lets have some c and c

kdog

Cool composition, but rather flat processing. Bump the black point, adjust the curve for more contrast, fix the vertical wide angle distortion, heal the dust spots, and this shot really pops.

skippy77

is that all kdog lol thanks for the input guess it is a bad shot then lol

kdog

skippy77 wrote: »

is that all kdog lol thanks for the input guess it is a bad shot then lol

That's not at all what I said. I like the shot. It may have sounded like a lot, but the simple tweaks I mentioned should take a minute or two at the most and would make a big difference. I know, because I actually performed them before I suggested them. And I wouldn't have wasted my time doing it on a shot I didn't like.

Regards,
-joel

skippy77

oo show me what u did i would like to see it tha thanks for the advice by the way

kdog

Here you go. I made it a little bigger too. I like big!

skippy77

looks darker but not as sharp i still like it

kdog

More contrasty. It lost sharpness from the up-sizing. You wouldn't have that problem by starting with the original.

skippy77

cool thanks for the tips kdog appreciate it

kdog

CatOne

It's not sharp and why would you need HDR for this shot? Maybe when you stacked or created the HDR the tone mapping makes this odd effect? I spent more time wondering about the processing and what happened than really looking at the subject

ghinson

I think this is a shot that benefits from HDR. Without it, the sky will be blown out in order to capture as much detail from the building. But, I agree with kdog regarding the original. The only reason why he lost some sharpness is he increased the size of the original. Pixelation. Also, on the rework, at least on my work monitor, I see some unnatural greens in the sky. Without playing with it, I would take the original, fix the distortion, clean the dust spots. I would've dialed down the saturation more at the level of the HDR software. If this is Photomatix, I would've slid the smoothing slider to the right and the gamma slider to the left. Then, simply adding some contrast back in post, and maybe some noise reduction would've made it work for me.

Composition-wise, the foreground bothers me. It isn't interesting, and there is just a little too much of it. If it were pretty blades of grass, then the low angle would've been more justified. As it is, I also find myself wishing the photographer would've stood up.