HDR enhances the sky
Once in the digital darkroom I could see that although the composition was exactly as I wanted, the sky left a bit to be desired. It was a bit washed out and not nearly carrying the drama that I saw in person — eyes are so much better than cameras!Anyway, I put the shot through my trusty high contrast HDR workflow and it turned out quite peachy. I had to take steps to remove the noise that got introduced (I use noise ninja) and I also had to lighten the dark outline around the light coloured jacket that appeared as a result of the HDR. But no worries, I am very pleased with the end result.
Compositionally, I used and abused the rule of thirds, used lead-in lines and hopefully wrote a story with the way the elements interact. I'll let you be the judge :)
As always, comments, critque, feedback welcomed
9 comments:
absolutely beautiful! composition, format, dark/light, all - great!
Another winner Mark.
Mark...fantastic! It screams HDR and as you know...thanks to you...my favorite process!
Dan
Thanks for your kind comments folks :) Genuinely appreciated.
@GypsyWoman: Welcome and thanks for joining - and I'm so glad you've enjoyed this image. Hopefully we'll see you around some more :)
I'm not familiar with HDR, other than having read a couple of articles. I do like your results- a lot. Though I loved how the lines lead into the photograph, and the people up on the left added interest and story to the photo, I found I wanted to know what was to the right. My husband doesn't see what I'm talking about:). What IS to the right?
Your Blog is fantastic! I love you photography it is superb!Can't wait to see your next one.
This is a beautiful work of art.
The most important lessons I took from a photography class was the rule of thirds and having something that draws the eye into the photo. This demonstrates both those points perfectly.
I've just re-discovered my passion for photography and wouldn't mind some critiques as I'm still working on my technique.
Please stop by:
www.photogra-me.blogspot.com
FYI - If I do any photo editing, I use PrintShop
Sorry for the time taken to reply here... been doing lots of blog maintenance and photo learning (links to come soon).
@Sandy: If you're interested, I've got a video tutorial on HDR here
@Krista: thanks so much for your kind words and obvious appreciation! mwoah!
@Laughing Idiot: ...and knowing when to abuse those rules helps too, lol! A good phrase I heard was "rules are only there so you think before you break them" - it applies so much to photo techniques and artistic intent.
As far as editing a photo is concerned, if you're not a photojournalist, DO IT, you're exploring your creative side and this WILL HELP considerably. When you spend an hour or more "fixing" a photo to match your original artistic intent - next time, you'll fix more of it before you press the camera's button!
On artistic intent: When you're taking a shot, say with a telegraph line intruding, you're brain filtered that out at the time as irrelevant - and it's what your brain saw at that time that hit your artsy buttons. And it's that that you want to share with others. So go on, be an image tart!
You did a great job! As long as you are happy with the results, that's all that counts.
It would be much more dramatic with a slightly larger image on this blog.
I think the 'rules' are for beginners or people with no imagination.
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