Bridges and Mills - HDR

Lyncca · Feb 17, 2008

I went out today to shoot some more mills while my husband was gaming

Someone mentioned after my last outing that the mills would have made for good HDR shots, so I gave it a whirl. Here are my favorites. Amazingly enough, I like how this little bridge turned out more than the mills. *rolls eyes*

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invisible · Feb 17, 2008

All good captures, but #2 is extremely nice.

unnecessary · Feb 17, 2008

NICE!

plentygood · Feb 17, 2008

They are all really good! My favorite is the first.

Jbs · Feb 17, 2008

no halos, NICE!

Lyncca · Feb 17, 2008

Jbs said:
no halos, NICE!

Thanks! I noticed this on a lot of HDRs and didn't like how it looked. I want my photography to look as natural as possible. #2 does have it a little bit, but it isn't TOO obvious.

kundalini · Feb 17, 2008

I'm really diggin' the scale of #1 and if that pile of dirt wasn't in front of the red tractor (some call it a truck) in the last, that would get my nod. All are really well done.

spiffybeth · Feb 17, 2008

i think you did a great job with these!

i really dislike the second one.

Lyncca · Feb 17, 2008

spiffybeth said:
i think you did a great job with these!

i really dislike the second one.

Thanks for the feedback. I ended up reprocessing #2 to get a more natural look. Does that help, or did you just not like the image subject/composition?

BuZzZeRkEr · Feb 17, 2008

Great HDR'S! What program are you using to process those? I can't get CS3 to give me anything good.

Lyncca · Feb 17, 2008

BuZzZeRkEr said:
Great HDR'S! What program are you using to process those? I can't get CS3 to give me anything good.

I'm running them in Photomatrix for HDR processing, then Lightroom for any other small exposure adjustments and finally to PS to remove any debris, healing, etc.

schumionbike · Feb 17, 2008

I like the last one the best, very nice color!!!

spiffybeth · Feb 17, 2008

Lyncca said:
Thanks for the feedback. I ended up reprocessing #2 to get a more natural look. Does that help, or did you just not like the image subject/composition?

it looks better now. i really didnt like how unnatural it looked. the subject/composition is nice. the area just to the right of the tree in the middle and the area between the trees on the left and the middle tree and just above the street (are you following all this? lol..) is all really light. but this one looks much better than the original one you posted.

Lyncca · Feb 17, 2008

spiffybeth said:
it looks better now. i really didnt like how unnatural it looked. the subject/composition is nice. the area just to the right of the tree in the middle and the area between the trees on the left and the middle tree and just above the street (are you following all this? lol..) is all really light. but this one looks much better than the original one you posted.

Cool. I was trying to create a surreal look in PS (not part of the HDR process), but I didn't end up liking it either after looking at it longer. Thanks for the feedback!