red flower field

[NJ]

after a slow process of leaning how to get the most out of photomatix and photoshop i have come up with this which i am really quite happy with. HDR using two raw images tone mapped in photomatix then adjusted curves locally in photoshop.

if u have a big monitor, please follow this link to view larger http://flickr.com/photos/nathanjphoto/2706681312/sizes/o/

any C&C is always appreciated. thanks for looking.

[Bindii]

Crop off about 2 thirds of the sky (pano format) and its a cracker!

[Catcha]

Nice shot Nathan what lens did you use for that

[main identity]

lovely photo well done but I agree with Bindii cut done on sky to just above dark cloud

[NJ]

agreed, it really does work well. lens used was the almighty sigma 10-20, my fav lens

[surenj]

Awesome..especially if it's just two exposures. What was your workflow ( I find it hard to use photomatix - too technical somewhat and the results are all substandard..)

[biggerry]

Crop off about 2 thirds of the sky (pano format) and its a cracker!

At first i disagreed with this, I was thinking the image was quite good as it is, however after seeing the cropped version it appears to really work well. For me the cropped version really pulls your eyes to the apex of the picture where the dark cloud is, this exaggerated in the crop version more. After going back to look at the original image, extra amount of blue sky pulls me away from the apex and from the leading lines of the flower rows....

I am probably just spinning sh*% or stating the bleeding obvious here but thats the impression I got!

nice call on the crop....and nice picture..

[Ant]

Lovely image. I was impressed by the original, but the crop was something I never would have picked but seems so obvious after it is done! I have to work on that.

Ant.

[PiroStitch]

great work NJ - the re-crop works very well.

[NJ]

thanks guys

work flow is all all RAW converted to DNG files.

fed two DNGs into photomatix, played with tone mapping until i got something reasonable, then opened the image in photoshop and used layer masks over the sky and the foreground to adjusted curves for the different areas of the image independently.