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Trip to the mountains w/ car

Hej fra Danmark, Anders navnebroder :D

Really nice photos!
Prefer #2 and #3, the lens flare on #1 is a bit distracting for me.

Brilliant lighting on #3 on both road and sky! :thumbup:
 
Halloen, ja! :D

The flare is annoying, indeed! Would only mess things up if I tried to remove it.
I accidentally left the headlights on on the car, so fate had a say in that :P It worked out well, though :)

Thank you for your opinions! :)
 
The flare is annoying, indeed! Would only mess things up if I tried to remove it.

I hear ya. I wish some plugin could take care of this, it's next to impossible to remove..
 
I like #3. the other 2, I rather see non HDR.
 
Ya, the lens flare really isn't a problem for me. My favourite is the last. Very cool.
 
I really like all three! I wouldn't have thought number 3 would have worked with such space in front but it really does!
 
My honest opinion is none of these are working too well for me. I'll try to explain why.

Although the first two images have a high dynamic range, they have a low tonal range (Lots of Grays but not much black or whites). A black point is critical for print and viewing. It really helps with the overall contrast and depth of a landscape. The renderings have made both #1 and # 2 somewhat flat, and the grays are overbearing making the images look almost desaturated. #1 the sky is very far gone for my personal tastes, with blacks and blues and strange, unnatural things happening.

I like the sky in #2. The scene is the nicest in #2, but probably would've rather seen this in landscape orientation with a bit less busy foreground. Also, the foreground is not super prominent-- the separation from foreground to mid-ground is lacking. I'm more interested in the water and it's reflections than the pebbles and weeds in the foreground. I do like the rocks and weeds as a foreground element, but not 50% of the frame worth.

In #3 your processing is really well done and my favorite of the set. I learned a while back that for winding road shots, wide is usually not the way to go. It makes the road get really small, really fast, and you're left with a bunch of uninteresting asphalt in the foreground (60% of your frame) and the actual winding road and body of water are only 1/25th of the image. I do like the colors and the location however. If you'd shot this at a longer focal length on your crop body, I think the results woud've done the scene more justice.
 

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