April in Serendib
by aznym

Comment:
Congratulations!

non allegorical image #7
by BrennanOB

Comment:
Congratulations! I particularly like that blue eye shining through.

Fear Of Letting Go
by jagar

Comment:
Congratulations on your blue ribbon!

feet
by ursula

Comment:

Originally posted by MargaretN: I gave it 7 but would not guess it was yours! Very interesting :)

It is good to find out that on occasion I still can go incognito :) I like that. Thank you.

Message edited by author 2011-04-15 00:19:24.

Signature
by mariuca

Comment:
I like the shapes of that tree!

Detoxification
by Paul

Comment:
My only 10 in the challenge, it is a beautiful picture! I'm glad it ribboned. Congratulations.

Reach for the Sky
by Neil

Comment:
Beautifully done, Neil :)

brycecanyon
by KristinaG

Comment:
A question, so what you did is take the two images and use a portion of each for the final, the sky portion of one, the land portion of the other? I'm trying to think, and I don't mean it nasty or anything, but I'm trying to remember: is that HDR? I mean, is work like this considered HDR work? This makes me want to eat my words about the light looking a bit flat, as so many HDR images tend to look. I mean, if the land portion is one photo and the sky portion another, same scene, different exposures, then if anything looks flat it doesn't have anything to do with HDR. Or maybe it doens't even look flat. Now I don't trust myself at all anymore :)

Nude on Tree Stump
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
Congratulations!

brycecanyon
by KristinaG

Comment:
Nice, in particular the bottom 2/3rds of the image. The sky not quite so much; it looks blown, with funny contrasts. The picture still has that flattish HDR feel to it, even though it doesn't look fake. Somehow, to my mind, there needs to be a light adjustment after the HDR to counter this tendency of HDR to make things look too even.

I think one of the things that HDR does is bring out "flaws" in the image that you might overlook otherwise. In this image, the HDR really brings out the beautiful textures of the sagebrush in front, but it also brings out that big hole at bottom left, where the eye keeps getting stuck. In a more traditional conversion it might be possible to minimize that hole much better. Not sure about that.

If you want a good resource for HDR, try David Nightingale's book, "Practical HDR" (//www.amazon.com/Practical-HDR-complete-creating-Dynamic/dp/0240812492). David knows HDR - he's one of the best when it comes to using HDR to the advantage of the picture.