Arboretum Scenics

[Joel_W]

Took a few HDR images on my last outing to one of the Arboretums here on Long Island to better handle some really contrasty scenics. All the pictures are 3 picture HDR images of -2/0/+2. CC's more then welcomed.


$RV9KTIJ by jaw101, on Flickr


$RYITUG6 by jaw101, on Flickr


$R5M0QUK by jaw101, on Flickr

 

[LaFoto]

The trees in the third have halos, and I wonder what these would have looked like as a single exposure, maybe with a polariser. The first and second lead me to believe you could have achieved the same in that manner :scratch: ... but then I know next to nothing about HDR, so my words don't count very much.

 

[Joel_W]

The trees in the third have halos, and I wonder what these would have looked like as a single exposure, maybe with a polariser. The first and second lead me to believe you could have achieved the same in that manner :scratch: ... but then I know next to nothing about HDR, so my words don't count very much.

LaFoto, thanks for your positive comments. I keep on looking for those pesky halos, but I don't see them on my screen. While I don't have a polariser filter I do have a few Graded ND filters. I guess if I wasn't so intent on going the HDR route, I should have tried that route as well.

 

[vipgraphx]

Joel, you a good guy and I hate to deliver bad feedback but these are not working. They all are to flat the third not as much but 1 and 2, there is not separation between he that big right bush/tree thing and the background.


The first one is busy and lacks depth. Composition is not bad but I think a little further back to get a little more foreground would have been better and you would not have been so tight to that deep pink bush/tree. Its slightly cutt off. Sometimes people say over processed and in this case I would say way under processed, You need more blacks and I think a lower F would have been better.

the second one greens are off between number 1 and 2. I similar advices as above. The green bush just blends into the Pine trees on the top right and the the green foliage on the left. I probably would have cloned out those yellow flowers/weeds on the lower right part as I think it is distracting and I keep looking there.

3 is your better one IMOP but there is some haloing going on in the trees which can be fixed its minute. I think you would have benefited from getting further back or tighter in. I am not crazy about the distance. I think with the framing you have space on both sides of those trees that keeps me wondering off the photo. I would like to see more. So a wider lens would have been great if you do not have one than a few steps back would have worked OR you could have used those two main trees and got tighter in so they framed the picture.


Hope this helps!

 

[Joel_W]

Vipgraphx, that's for the honest CC and feedback. I'll rework my images and try for better processing, especially the blacks, then re-crop and see what I can do.

I was frustrated with the original results, and I guess I just plain fooled myself that I managed to fix them.