Meanwhile, Back on Earth

[abraxas]

Just kidding, I'm not on Earth- The plants are fake.

 

[dewey]

I like this shot - I've tried for the same thing before and failed.

Anyway, good capture, DOF and composition - nice color too. :thumbup:

 

[Mainiac]

Oooh, nice shot. :thumbup: I love the color. The terrain does look like it's from another planet, doesn't it?

 

[LaFoto]

Ah, still radio'ing your pics down from Mars then, hm?
That is a nice enough planet up there.
Will you be back in time for the big Germany meet-up then? I expect you here, you know that, don't you?

 

[abraxas]

I like this shot - I've tried for the same thing before and failed.

Anyway, good capture, DOF and composition - nice color too. :thumbup:

I tried a few things different on this shot;

Bracketing exposures (Haven't figured out auto-bracketing yet).

Shooting in RAW mode. I've found that I don't get the problems with haloing and separation in RAW as I seem to get using JPG.

and, using CS2 to build the HDR. This helped the most as well as easily producing the most realistic HDR shot.

 

[Alex_B]

The foreground looks very dark to me. Is that a desired effect? One of the advantages of HDR is that you can get a well exposed foreground as well.

[edit:] sorry, do not mean to be rude here .. just wrote the first thing which came to my mind

 

[Mohain]

Wow, i really like that! :thumbup:

 

[abraxas]

The foreground looks very dark to me. Is that a desired effect? One of the advantages of HDR is that you can get a well exposed foreground as well.

[edit:] sorry, do not mean to be rude here .. just wrote the first thing which came to my mind

That's not rude- that's appreciated.

I was going for a darker foreground though. Using the CS2 HDR doesn't seem to produce enough of a 3d look as I wanted. I was trying to get it by extremes in light, hopefully pulling the viewer into the photo.

I had lightened the desert holly bushes up front a bit and it went crazy looking. I'll try lightening up the front before I decide which way I'll go with it- I'm rebuilding my online gallery. Thanks, your input is appreciated and considered . Sometimes the pre-critique-critique around the house here is light ("yeh, yeh, yeh- looks fine- leave me alone..."). I gotta grow somehow.

Wow, i really like that! :thumbup:

Thanks.

 

[David]

Great shot, and I wish I had that sort of view near me.

D

 

[JTHphoto]

very nice... like many of your recent images, this one is inspiring me to find better light... :thumbup:

 

[abraxas]

Great shot, and I wish I had that sort of view near me.

D

very nice... like many of your recent images, this one is inspiring me to find better light... :thumbup:

Thanks David and JTHPhoto; life's getting rough around here again, I gotta get out of here and try to find more of this stuff.

 

[lostprophet]

great shot, that is one of the best of yours I've seen

 

[abraxas]

great shot, that is one of the best of yours I've seen

:thumbup: Thanks LP, appreciated.