Daybreak, Schoodic Peninsula
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Robert, sorry this didn't score higher for you than it did. SO many images that were poorly tonemapped ahead of you. Seems so wrong. Apparently the votes like halos and other such things. Sorry about that, yours was so much better than 37th place.

Evening glow
by Melethia

Comment:
Ha, I was right Deb, it is you. It was the building that I recognised. :) Well done Deb, should have scored much higher.

by Mephisto

Comment:
Talk about another time/another place. This could have been taken any time over the last 60 years (well apart from the cars but..)

by Mephisto

Comment:
Markets are such a great place to hang around. This is really well done.

by Mephisto

Comment:
Christophe this is fab.

New and Old Architecture
by ronaldfw

Comment:
The HDR treatment on the buildings works really well, but sadly the sky and the haloing is not good.

The Tunnel
by talmy

Comment:
I think the processing is very nicely done here, lots of details brought out. Just the subject and composition are not terribly interesting.

Quiet moment
by IreneM

Comment:
what a pity the horizon is tilted.

Heritage
by gys

Comment:
You have done really well bringing out the details in the bike, but the sky let's this down.

Bonny Kay
by Bugzeye

Comment:
Coming back to comment. I gave this a 6. Definitely not over processed, but I can see how some people who have the "must look like a cartoon" view of HDR may score it low. To be honest, I was hovering between 5 and 6 but that has NOTHING to do with the HDR effect, it's more the composition of the image that was pushing me towards a 5. It think this is where people seem to forget (that comment is directed more to what I have read in the forum, not you by the way!), it's not just about the HDR. I am not a big fan of the black border. I think it does not enhance this image at all, if you needed a border, I think white would have worked a bit better.

As far as the processing goes, you definitely managed to pull out some detail by using the HDR technique, but in the process, I think the cyan/blue channel seems to have been tweaked a bit too much as it appears to be somewhat unnatural. I think the midtones also could do with being toned down a bit, as it seems quite bright.

Overall, I do think you are suffering because it is not what the viewers here on DPC have come to expect from HDR, but also a little bit because of the compoition and general level processing. As I said, I did give it a six. I hope this is helpful.