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RayEthierComment by ursula: You showed me this image a few weeks ago, and this version looks quite different. I didn't find the older version in your portfolio, but, if I remember, it was a lot moodier, much more grey and darkness. This one is quite beautiful, almost unreal so. I like the texture brought out in the road. The Fall colours are like those in a painting. I wish you would post the other for comparison.
Please don't get me wrong, I like all this bringing out of colours and shapes and textures, but I also like moodiness and reality. The sky here is stormy dark, yet the field/barn/trees have almost sunshiny colours. I know what's been said, that the human eye sees so much more than film (or sensor), that the range of the human eye is so much bigger, and that is true, but .... even with my eyes, on a cloudy day, the fields, grass, trees, wooden walls, don't look sunny, they look muted, they go with the sky.
Actually, I don't know if this is HDR/tone-mapping or what. It doesn't quite look like HDR/tone-mapping, maybe more like contrast masking or something like that.
I don't know why I'm writing this long missive here. Probably because I've become very frustrated with the emphasis on trying to bring so much colour and brightness/contrast into every other picture, that they all look the same after a while; no more cloudy days, no more beautiful, moody ambient.
I know that the attempt to compensate for the failure of sensors to perceive the full range of contrast between light and dark is good. I also know that for the most part I do not care for the results. Please don't hate me for saying all of this.
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