CdTSnap
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Over processed, the image may not need HDR at all.
The trees on the right side of the bridge are suffering from alignment issues.
It's funny the different reactions you get to an image. This was originally black and white which I liked a lot.
Then I posted this one on a local Facebook page and sold 2 prints.
Art in my mind can be almost anything. Why does it have to be over done? Cause you say so? Maybe it was supposed to be "over done"
Most of my images are under done if anything I will quite often bring the vibrance slider down.
Anyway. Art is in the eye of the beholder or some rubbish like that isn't it? I think people on this forum get way to over scientific with things sometimes. Some of you comment saying its over done or its under done or whatever because why? The photography rules tell you so?
My image of the gannet coloney sold 3 prints and the only reason it stood out from other photographers to the buyer was because the birds where ghosted because of the long shutter. However that was the first comment I think on here. "The birds should have been sharp" lol I didn't want the birds to be sharp.
Blah blah blah. I'm off to work now lol rant over
Hey, you only want 'Love its', 'great jobs' etc etc ... find a support group. Personally I don't like the over done processing on this shot and it hasn't got a dam thing to do with any rules!
Kudos for selling prints, honestly.
That I don't like tone-mapped images is a personal preference that I'm normally quite clear about, and the reasons why. I also understand light and processing a little so can hazard a guess as to why the utilities pipe and the upper structure of the bridge has a blue cast, and explain the slight colour cast in the shadows.
But what I clearly see is the underside of a dirty cast concrete bridge over a muddy brown creek with some dirty green/brown water running through it. I would normally walk around stuff that colour.Which I said in my main post was my real problem with it. I personally don't find it appealing, that's all.