February Landscape-Eagle Peak
by twmax

Comment:
Very nice shot. The conversion was done near perfectly, great tonal range.

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by lifeafter2am

Comment:

Originally posted by digifotojo: This is beautiful. I've tried shots like this on various occasions mainly because I like night light reflections in water. Photomatix seems to have worked very well for this scene. I think perhaps the subtle atmospheric light and/or the probable longer exposure might have been the reason. I've had questionable results with Photomatix when shooting bracketed sunset shots. However, I think your image is exceptional in DOF and color. Very nicely done. I would be interested to know what time it was taken (ie: twilight) and what your exposure time was.

Most of the time I have very little in the way of good results when doing night shots in Photomatix. It is very hard, I have found, to do low light images, because any darkness that is present will be magnified. I am still new to the whole HDR thing though, so I am still learning. Most of the other stuff I am working on needs to be reshot with exposures well over 30 seconds.

This shot was taken just after the sun had set, so there was still some (but really not much at all) ambient light. The exposure times were all between 10 and 30 seconds.

Self esteem mirror
by Can-on

Comment:
LOL. Zoolander's Magnum!

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by lifeafter2am

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Originally posted by bobonacus: very interesting abstract macro, I like the texture in the ice(?) cc, I think I may have cropped off the left more

Not ice. Its this fake snow stuff with some food coloring in it, makes for really good geometric shapes and textures.

This is what it is: //www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder10/79ea/

Thanks for the comment!

Day 7: The Colour Purple
by bobonacus

Comment:
The purple separates well from the green background in this shot. This one looks softer than the other two to me though.

Day 9 : Pink
by bobonacus

Comment:
Of the 3 you just posted, this is by far the strongest shot! I love the detail and the nice shallow DOF!

Day 8: The Colour Orange
by bobonacus

Comment:
I really like the colors in this shot! The orange really pops out at you.

Metamorphosis
by klkitchens

Comment:
I honestly can't believe this didn't fair better. IMO this was one of the stronger shots.

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by lifeafter2am

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Originally posted by kirbic: I positively *love* this. The deep black background and the composition just make this shot.

Thanks! You get that separation quite a bit when using the ring-light.