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Brushing the Dust Off
Hey all - I finally found my way back to the camera, it has been far too long and many changes in life. I have moved a couple of times and been engrossed in building a career. I am now living in rural Arizona and loving life. I hope to be able to share some shots, here are two. crits welcome
My street after a recent snow and rain storm
A scene from the neighborhood, with some texture fun.
Be easy, it has been a while since I posted anything
The City Boy Has Moved To The Country And Found Himself
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Nice - do you have bigger versions of them? Maybe post them at 700px wide or something like that?
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Hi, AZ and great to see you back
...just a quick comment as I'm in a hurry...nice shots! I like the touch of HDR in #1 and the composing in #2...
waiting for more~~~
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The City Boy Has Moved To The Country And Found Himself
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Really like them both - after the storm has a wonderful feel to it. What PP did you use on it?
Good work.
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I took 3 shots of the scene, as the sun was very bright and the clouds were pushing a single exposure way off the grid. I really wanted to keep the whole mountain scene and be able to have the foreground prominent as well. In PS, I adjusted the Exposure slider to allow the clouds to look correct, then layed the second image over top that one, added a mask and painted out the sky of the second image to let the corrected one come through, Then I did the same with the third image and painted in the details of the road and other foreground items. Does that make sense?
Here is a shot of my place after an overnight snow. I used two images for this one, with the mask process.
Larger size
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/...fd350ba4_o.jpg
This is a shot of my grandson, lighting was rough, but he was really cute.
The City Boy Has Moved To The Country And Found Himself
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Selected light correction is what I like too rather then using a HDR tool
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Originally Posted by frex
Selected light correction is what I like too rather then using a HDR tool
Totally agree. The only bit of advice I would give anyone for using photomatix is this. Go to Control Panel > Programs > Photomatix > Remove.
Selected light correction is much better.
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I quite like photomatix's exposure fusion
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Oh aye, yeah, it can be used ok but on the whole it's a tool that is used badly. I do actually like some HDR shots. This one: http://blog.photoshelter.com/hdr-76.jpg
I like that.
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That is the way that I like to get a final image close to what my eyes saw. The camera is always getting fooled by metering one light source, so multiple exposures allows me to paint away the over/under exposed regions to get the image that was really there.
Thanks for the input guys, I'll post some more images later on.
The City Boy Has Moved To The Country And Found Himself
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Yeah just the blending hdr stuff in photomatrix at 100% is ****. But their new exposure stuff is pretty cool. much more subtle results. I haven't played with that program in months though so I'm sure there is even more stuff to play around with now.
it's all about not over doing it.
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