Winter Frost @ night

[kanuski]

We had a few days of beautiful frost this Christmas and the sky was a giant softbox for about a week. Yard lights helped with these images but the wb was tough to figure out. Any comments and/or mud throwing appreciated.
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4. HDR version of #3

 

[Designer]

In #s 3 & 4, where is the extra light coming from? If not for that, then this angle is a winner.

 

[D-B-J]

The middle image in the top is my favorite. Nicely done!

Jake

 

[Didereaux]

In #s 3 & 4, where is the extra light coming from? If not for that, then this angle is a winner.

To me that looks like a yard light. If so, and the OP has access to the switch, the solution would be simple.

 

[Didereaux]

We had a few days of beautiful frost this Christmas and the sky was a giant softbox for about a week. Yard lights helped with these images but the wb was tough to figure out. Any comments and/or mud throwing appreciated.

the lighting is killing you in all of them. Composition is good to excellent. The first couple night shots look as if the main light is incandescent headlights on a vehicle, and then you painted some of the scene with a high power LED spotlight. The yard light(?) in the last three destroys the shot. Find the switch, and click it! If you had all the interior lights on in the house and no yard light, I think you'd have a winner

 

[kanuski]

The light on the last three is from a LED yard light. I could have turned it off but I was trying to show the frost on the trees. I actually brighten the trees in LR because I thought they were too dark.

 

[kanuski]

Maybe this is more your style?

 

[Didereaux]

Maybe this is more your style?
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Don't use the exposure/white/highlight in LR for that pic. You want to use the Shadow, and black sliders. That way you do not also increase the highlights to the burn out stage.

 

[kanuski]

I had increased the highlights but didn't think they were too hot. This one is cropped and converted to jpg with some sharpening. Otherwise SOOC.

 

[Didereaux]

This is more what I was trying to describe. Nothing more than LR reduce shadows,black and saturation. touch up clarity, and contrast. dead simple. notice the huge amount of detail that was hidden in that black of the original.

 

[kanuski]

Yea. That looks good.