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.

Yosemite Valley
by william88

Comment:
Wow, very beautiful! Congratulations. I particularly like the water, it is so silky and the colours are fantastic.

Jade
by Neil

Comment:
Ahhh, a newbie winner! Yep. I wonder if this Neil fellow knows about the rules and the dates and all that good stuff. Maybe this will be DQed, yeah, maybe :)

Anyway. Congratulations, it's a beautiful picture. It is so clear. How are you liking the D7000? I am rather impressed with mine, I get detail where I didn't know detail existed.

cedar grove
by bspurgeon

Comment:
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nautilus
by hihosilver

Comment:
Beautiful shell. I like how black you got the background.

Road crossing
by Wobble

Comment:
A visual pun! I like it.

Friends Forever
by Ammie

Comment:
I really wish there was a little more light on both the girl and the dog! The scene is beautiful, but the two (dog/girl) are just a bit too much in the shadow for it to work (for me).

one pigeon
by tnun

Comment:
I like the diagonal feel within the square. Very dark, but it works.