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Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby Dave-D40 on Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:48 pm

Went out for half hour today to Guide Falls, wasnt to happy with the light so i bracketed a couple and made my first hdr's

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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby Killakoala on Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:33 pm

The second image is tops. Just how a waterfall image should look.
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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby surenj on Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:52 pm

Love them both..second is better.
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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby robert on Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:59 pm

Composition on the second is great. I'm wondering if it could maybe do with a bit more contrast?

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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby Catcha on Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:35 pm

:agree: 2nd shot is great
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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby johnd on Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:19 am

robert wrote:Composition on the second is great. I'm wondering if it could maybe do with a bit more contrast?

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I agree, the 2nd is a great composition.

The HDR technique in general does suck contrast out of an image, but there are ways of getting it back. This involves taking the tone mapped image and adding some of the original exposures as layers and using layer masks to selectively blend some of the contrasty bits back in. I almost always find that the tone mapped image out of the HDR software is not to my liking and end up doing a fair bit of PP the way I have described. In the case of this image, you would get some more contrast in the rocks and vegetation using this technique.

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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby miikeboyle on Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:03 pm

I love the second shot. The first appears to have a haze next to the waterfall (possibly sunlight in the mist?)
The second has nice colour and draws attention. What lens was the secont one taken with?

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Re: Guide Falls gentle Hdr

Postby Dave-D40 on Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:25 am

Thanks all,

Both pics where taken with the kit nikkor 18-55.
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