New to photography... C&C welcome for 3 HDR photos

ruahusker · Jul 20, 2012

Hello,

I'm completely new to HDR (1 month) and relatively new to DSLR photography (1 year). Over the last month or so I have experimented quite a bit with HDR and I believe these 3 on a recent trip to Montana have turned out the best. I am shooting using a Canon T3 and using Photomatrix Pro for the HDR processing and GIMP for post processing. All three of these photos are processed fairly heavily. Any C&C would be greatly appreciated.

TIA!

#1
Abandoned structure

#2 Montana State Capitol

#3 Missouri River Headwaters State Park in Montana

vipgraphx · Jul 20, 2012

I like the first two, the third has to much waisted space.

All though I like rich colors and over saturated photos many will say here your greens are to electric and its to saturated.

Second picture has some blown out white in the clouds and there is some halo around the tree and it looks a little tilted to the left.

ruahusker · Jul 20, 2012

vipgraphx said:
I like the first two, the third has to much waisted space.

All though I like rich colors and over saturated photos many will say here your greens are to electric and its to saturated.

Second picture has some blown out white in the clouds and there is some halo around the tree and it looks a little tilted to the left.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. Point #1, the third also has a series of landscape mode shots that I feel better catch the subject, unfortunately the sun rays and other things didnt turn out quite as well. As for point #2, you are probably right. I tend to like oversaturated greens and yellows, but I can definitely see how that is probably not technically the best way to treat them (same thing as the people who prefer to turn their TV up to the vivid color scheme instead of the more natural calibrated look). For point #3 Thanks for bringing up the tilt, I didn't previously even notice that, but I do now. Should be an easy enough fix. I knew about the Halo, this was one of my first workups and I didnt know any better, so I might go back and re process and increase the detail smoothing to bring the halo down a bit.

Thanks for your input.

Steve

ruahusker · Jul 20, 2012

I also just noticed the vignetting in photo #1. Bummer.

Anyone know why this happens? I have noticed it on several of my other shots as well. Almost all of my shots have been handheld (my tripod broke on the trip) does this have anything to do with it?

vipgraphx · Jul 20, 2012

could be your lens.

ruahusker · Jul 20, 2012

vipgraphx said:
could be your lens.

Could be i guess, but I don't notice it on single exposure shots. Hummm

vipgraphx · Jul 20, 2012

hdr intensifies things.

nineoneeighttony · Jul 20, 2012

ruahusker said:
I also just noticed the vignetting in photo #1. Bummer. Anyone know why this happens? I have noticed it on several of my other shots as well. Almost all of my shots have been handheld (my tripod broke on the trip) does this have anything to do with it?

I like #1! What lens are you using, and fliters on the end?

ruahusker · Jul 20, 2012

nineoneeighttony said:
ruahusker said:

I also just noticed the vignetting in photo #1. Bummer. Anyone know why this happens? I have noticed it on several of my other shots as well. Almost all of my shots have been handheld (my tripod broke on the trip) does this have anything to do with it?

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I like #1! What lens are you using, and fliters on the end?

I am using the stock Canon 18-55 IS lens. No filters.

vipgraphx · Jul 21, 2012

could be why you see some vignette.

that1guy · Jul 21, 2012

suprisingly for a beginner your work is really good, keep practicing

over all good job! i like these

that1guy · Jul 21, 2012

could you post the raws for these? id actually try to do my own version

that1guy · Jul 21, 2012

ruahusker said:
I also just noticed the vignetting in photo #1. Bummer. Anyone know why this happens? I have noticed it on several of my other shots as well. Almost all of my shots have been handheld (my tripod broke on the trip) does this have anything to do with it?

i actually used to have this camera theres an opition in ur settings to turn on and off vignetting but i forgot which one it is just read all of them ull find it