San Antonio Botanical Garden. This is an HDR processed RAW file. Then in PSE I tweaked the saturation and did some dodging. Resized and sharpened.
after challenge:
Thank you all for the comments. They did range about. The HDR process is something I'm still experimenting with. I like the effect on pictures but I'm not to sure I like how this one came out... it was my second try.
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I'm not at all familiar with HDR processing so my assumption it was a bit oversharpened is probably erroneous. Didn't even recognize the place - thought it was in the orient somewhere! After all, this is more "green" than I've seen around here in months! :-)
I had a feeling this might be either yours or Don's. Nice capture of that scene, David! As many times as I've been to the Botanical Garden for shoots, I've never quite been able to make it competitively photogenic. You did a great job!
The shadow/highlight is way too heavy for my taste. Sorry. I do like the scene and it looks like a really beautiful place. The building in the background looks interesting, like some kind of super-greenhouse.
Love the vibrant hues of green and the variety of foliage in the shot - really makes an impact in the composition because I think spring and renewel which plays well with the title of the piece. I like how you used the columns to naturally frame the futuristic glass building seen in the background. It is that framing that really complements the main focus the futuristic glass building surrounded by nature.
I'm impressed. Not only is the creativity in your eyes very good, the psot-processing works very well here. (a tad more burning/less brightness near the posts would have helped a bit more in my opinion)
I really like this concept. The composition is wonderful. But in execution it feels a little washed out to me. There appear to be some post processing artifacts in the clouds. Maybe a bit more contrast would help. As always, just my opinion.
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