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Challenge: HDR III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, Caifornia, USA
Date: Jun 5, 2010
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: Auto/100
Shutter: 1/251
Galleries: Landscape, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Jun 6, 2010
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Shot from the cart/pedestrian path overlooking the ninth green at the Tilden Regional Park Golf Course. I'm red-green colorblind, but even I can find (at least) nine shades of green in this picture. :-)
Merged from three exposures ranging from 1/101 to 1/636 second (base exposure 1/251 sec), plus two copies of the lightened exposure further modified with Curves, using EnfuseGUI.
-Tripod, timer
-Aperture mode, Auto-Exposure Bracketing mode
-Exposure Compensation -1 stop
-WB = Sunny
-Merge images with EnfuseGUI
-Clone out a little ghosting caused by motion blur of leaves in the middle, and stray branch at the top
-Some local Dodge/Burn to darkest foliage and calla flowers
-Clone in color mode on flowers
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Create artially-transparent mask over calla leaves
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves to calla leaves through mask
-Create translucent semi-radial gradient mask for sky and trees near ridgeline
-RGB Curve to sky area through mask to correct "reverse vignette" effect
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied three times)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 299KB
File: Grn9_IMG_0943-45HDRv4DPC7.jpg
Resized originals:
    
Grayscale version:
[Jun. 7th, 2010 02:44:16 PM]
Screenshot of EnfuseGUI settings used to merge originals:
[thumb]889379[/thumb]
[Jun. 7th, 2010 03:08:34 PM]
Screenshots of tone curves used to generate the two lightened versions; the effect of the second curve is added to that of the first:
[thumb]889383[/thumb] [thumb]889384[/thumb] |
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06/14/2010 01:40:56 PM |
I think it looks good, especially considering the equipment..
I do think you might have over saturated a bit, and I think the midtones are just a bit too bright..
HDR to me is more about the shadows and highlights than it is the midtones,, and your image seems to draw me consistently to the midtones. I think that was most of the problem...
But be clear... This was WAYY better than a 4.57... you just didn't get lucky with any fluffy white clouds, and your foliage is scary bright green.. :) |
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06/09/2010 05:33:18 PM |
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06/07/2010 05:26:23 PM |
| this is too bright; as if it were taken in the middle of the day |
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