Medieval Exe Bridge, Exeter, England.

[iolair]

I shot this today, and can't decide if I'm happy with it or not ... any feedback?


Medieval Exe Bridge by Neil Gratton, on Flickr

Single-frame HDR. Canon EF-S 10-22mm at 10mm, f/11, 1/180s on a Canon 20D.

 

[tyler_h]

Nice shot; no HDR feel to it at all. Just looks well exposed.

Not sure the composition does much for me; can't decide what the subject is...

Also, maybe consider shifting the cyan's slightly (5-10) points towards ultramarine. It was a tip I was given for cloudy sky and I've found it can work pretty well.

 

[iolair]

Thanks; it was the least traditional composition I did of the bridge ... I think breaking up the frame into geometric shapes worked well ... that big triangle of sky for example ... but all the lines lead the eye ... to nothing, or something out of view.

I know what you mean about the HDR feel ... I've experimented a bit with free HDR software, and still can't come up with anything that feels natural to me. Instead I blend my different exposures (one for sky, one for the rest) "manually" in my graphics software.

I just gave the sky colour shift a little try on the hue map; definitely worth a go.