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Originally Posted by subrataofkris
The sky and clouds look too sharp and bright and look a bit unnatural. DOF is great, top of the third log is too bright and has lost the details.
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Subrata -- Thanks. My biggest gripe about my current HDR technique is what it does to clouds. I actually find myself looking for cloudless sky so I don't have to deal with them later, which is sad. Check out the revision below, I cropped most of the questionable clouds, cleaned up the rest, and toned down the brightness.
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Originally Posted by jiminyClickit
newbie,
Great scenery there. A different height (up or down with camera) might have put water line in a better position, either higher (with more lake/fewer clouds) or lower (more sky/less water). One of those may also have lessened high reflection on logs. Upper right 3/4 of photo is a simpler landscape, puts water/land/sky in thirds.
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JC - It's amazing how someone (me specifically) can get so caught up with the complexities of a picture and the post-processing that composition basics are forgotten. Thanks for the reminder! I wasn't quite ready to give up the logs (I think they add too much foreground intrest and lead the viewers eye into the picture), so I cropped the photo to a much more pleasing 2/3 water 1/3 sky framing. Hope you like it.
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Originally Posted by windrider86
I've been to this lake and feel you captured it nicley, witht he exception of the clouds. They look too fake for my taste. The reflection is fabulous.
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Windrider - Vail sure is gorgeous in the summer! See my reply to Subrata above for my rant about the clouds. In short, I completely agree with you about them looking fake. It's a necessary evil of my HDR processing that the whites get clipped. Still working on a fix. . . See if you like the revision better.
Thanks again! As I finish processing my weekend in Vail I may have a few more like these.
