These trail photos are starting to be an ongoing theme in my photo collection. I think it is because of the opportunity to recognize, compose, and process. The biggest challenge in these photos are the white clouds in the background. These clouds are almost consistently washed, so corrections in post-processing tend to turn those small portions into noise that darkens to noise.
However, over the past couple of days I have noticed a lot more blue sky, which I hope makes it to this weekend. Probably go to Kamakura for another walk, except this time take the girls with me.
Oops, sidetracked! Back to the picture... One of the first photos like this that I posted on Flickr was a hit and I could not figure out why. It was a rather plain photo of a stairway taken at a very wide angle in portrait. Later I realized that it was the detail in the photo that HDR brought. The same thing happened with this photo. The post-processing of the photo produced a very nice photo with all the colors I wanted, but when the detail came out after the HDR processing, I decided to stick with HDR. Here it is.
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Mt Hiura (日浦岳)
3 か月前
3 件のコメント:
I'm usually not a big fan of HDR, but you've achieved a very nice, subtle effect here. What technique did you use?
I've found that a polarizing filter often works well on cloudy days - it can often help to cut some of that monotone glare that bounces off everything..
I go in-and-out with HDR. It just depends on the image for me.
Technique:
I only do single exposures. when I find a picture in Aperture (that I have dumped from the camers) that I would like to try with HDR, I do all the adjustments for color, highlights, shadows, etc. Then I will save three copies of the photo to my desktop as a 16 bit TIF. One picture is normal exposure, one picture is +2 exposure, and another picture is -2 exposure.
I then drop these three TIF exposures into Photomatix Pro and produce the HDR. This picture was processed with the tone mapping option.
If necessary, will pull the HDRd photo into Photoshop CS for some final touches.
I actually make a lot of HDR images that I do not post or show, because I prefer the original image... like the forest wooden walkway posted a couple days ago.
Your pictures look great. What kind of camera are you using?
Ah, so that's how it's done! That makes sense. So many HDRs are candy colored monstrosities (which is fine for a few, but it gets tired quickly), but yours are some of the nicest that actually enhance the scene.
I'm using a Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 VR lens, and the polarizing filter.
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