On 10/6/2014 8:30 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
Sheri and I went to LaSalle, IL ...
I looked up and suddenly a bit of sun had broken through
the heavy clouds and there were pink highlights... damn! I ran back to
where I was before, extending tripod legs as I ran, plugged the cable
release back in, and shot a 7-shot bracketed burst about 10 seconds before
the pink disappeared. I had less than one minute to grab that shot.
I've posted two versions - one that's a single frame, tweaked a bit in LR
to saturate the pink a bit more and to de-saturate the green a touch. The
other one was processed in HDR Efex 2 at a lighter setting. I'm not 100%
sure which one I like. There seems to be some slight haloing in the HDR one
- maybe if I tried again and left the brightest frame out of the mix...
Lemmeno whatchu think.
Non-HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14626
HDR: http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14629
I much prefer the non-HDR. The HDR one not only looks unnatural, but does so in an unappealing way, to my eye. Look at
the foliage of the tree, for example.
Unless you are shooting the dark side of Mercury against the Sun, seven shot bracketing is overkill. :-) I can't
imagine why this subject would need HDR at all. Using a tripod, with static subject, set the ISO to 200 and shoot say
three brackets, maybe -1/3, -2/3 and -1 EV, to nail down the highlights. Shot at base ISO, the E-M5 file will stand
lots of pulling up of mid-range and shadows, as your non-HDR images shows.
I also don't think that the default effect of HDR, as here, of raising the mid tones, is particularly effective for this
subject. Sunrise (or set, for that matter) behind it makes us expect the shadowed areas to be dark. Pulling them up
makes our eyes think there is something wrong - perhaps two suns, as you say. ;-)
I'd go the other way, intensifying the effect of being in shadow of the late sun. And if you need more juice in the
sky, that's easy.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Braun/Grain_Elevator.htm>
1. LCE on the elevator (USB 30,50,0) makes it much more solid and interesting
to my eye.
2. LCE on the foreground and foliage (USB 20,50,0) brings out tonal detail and
richness.
3. Levels brings down the middle of the foreground to a more late light look.
4. I like the building with even more richness, more interesting shadows -
Curves.
5. Then the sky, where one may do pretty much anything. I chose short of
nu-clear.
Dark Moose
--
What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|