HDR merge from 3 RAWs
Various selective edits including brightening the men and slightly blurring the sky.
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We were driving into Nacogdoches on the 4th and I saw the top man's silhouette against the sun. I yelled to my wife, "Oh my God, it's my distance shot! Pull over!"
You can see the man on the lower rack laughing at me. I have outtakes of them both laughing and waving at my picture taking.
[Jul. 11th, 2011 06:00:55 PM]
I am astounded this picture is coming in below a 6.
Halos are distracting? You look at this image and are distracted by halos?
Nit pick much??
[Jul. 15th, 2011 05:19:47 PM]
I see what people are saying about the halos, but I suppose it's more subtle to me than I thought. Or it wasn't a big deal.
Still think this should finish over 6
[Jul. 15th, 2011 05:22:22 PM]
I added "halos" as a keyword for this image, since obviously that's what it is a picture of.
Post Challenge:
I can't believe this finished so low. Oh well.
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Not that it hasn't already been posted during the challenge, but I thought you might like some further feedback. I'm actually surprised this pulled as high an average as it did. I do like the way the water tower itself looks, but there is a ton of unattractive blotchiness and haloing in the sky. I gave it a 5 and expected this to come in with a high 4 or low 5 average. Unbroken skies can be difficult, and in advanced editing, I almost always edit sky and foreground separately to try and keep this from happening. I live in one of those glass houses, though, and have had my own share of PP induced halo disasters.
I like this image and it is one of my higher scoring images but the white patch on the far right edge is a distracting element and could have been removed. It may just be my eyes but the edges appear to be showing signs of halloing.
I really like the processing of this overall. gives a bit more life to what likely could have been a washed out photo. Note however that I'm not fond of the halo effect around the structure.
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