A big hole in the ground, now with streets and some erosion reducing grass, soon to be a big bunch of homes.
6 exposures ranging from about 3 stops under to about 2 stops over exposed. Photoshop CS2 HDR merge, mode to 16 bit, adjusted curve, adjusted brightness/contrast/saturation, sized to 640, saved for web optimized for no greater than 150k.
Statistics
Place: 77 out of 84 Avg (all users): 4.5280 Avg (commenters): 3.6000 Avg (participants): 4.2143 Avg (non-participants): 4.5820 Views since voting: 1033 Views during voting: 473 Votes: 286 Comments: 12 Favorites: 1 (view)
The sky was totally overcast, the scene dark, the sky wasn't blown in the photo. HDR was used properly, with 6 exposures over a wide range, and the HDR processing done to faithfully recreate the lighting as I saw it with my eyes, with the exception of a bit of oversaturation to bring up some of the contrasting colors.
The subject matter was an attempt to portray the expansiveness of the development, the size of the hole in the side of the hill. Unfortunately, that didn't translate well to the small format. Bad choice on my part.
Thanks for all the positively presented criticisms.
Interesting lines of the road. The image seems somewhat low-contrast, probably suffers from low-light. More light during day would probably be better since the overcast or twilight sky hasn't given you nice color. Maybe your conditions were severe, as you photo doesn't show much dynamic range, e.g., recovered by HDR.
If I was to be brutally frank, I'd say there is nothing in this picture that suggests HDR was used at all. It's flat, dull and pointless. It looks like it was taken on a camera phone through a dirty window.
Luckily I'm not being frank, but I will say perhaps you didn't follow the HDR proceedure properly? Try looking for more dramatic skies or areas with greater dynamic range - after all that's what HDR is all about!
Use of Light:0.5
Focus:1
Composition:1
Creativity:0.5
Achieves Challenge:1
Good effort on using HDR to bring out the trees in the background without blowing out the brighter portions. However, the image really isn't all that pretty and is a little dark
This seems a little tonally flat and lifeless, but I do like the diagonal and s-curve lines made by the roads. I think with different lighting (sunrise/set, perhaps?) the scene would be more appealing.
the sky still looks very flat and blown out even with the HDR.
and to be honest, the overall scene isn't that interesting.
the trees look like they have some good color in them, but they are too far away to really grab your attention.
sorry :-(
I'm afraid this doesn't really hit the mark with me. Unless I have misunderstod the concept (which is always possible) one of the main advantages of HDR is that it balances out exposure, allowing for areas that would normally be to dark, to be correctly exposed, and yet this photo seems to have large areas that are under-exposed. Coupled with that, the subject matter and composition are dull and rather uninteresting - a difficult one, though, given the short period in which to take and process the photo!
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
