Fountain in Paris, HDR

[rsplatpc]

[xxpinballxx]

fist off if you can go to your flickr page and post the medium image it would greatly help out. Some here do not have the fastest internet and will appreciate the gesture.
We have guidelines to images and 600pxls being the longest side is one of them.
Now for the image....very nice photo. I personally would crop off the bottom getting rid of the minimal amount of the railing and also would make the image more of a landscape. Seems to be a bit more square than normal landscape shots. I think the overall tonemapping is nice but the sky seems a bit too aqua on my monitor.
Great photo and nice work...did you shoot any of this zoomed in on the sculpture?

[rsplatpc]

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

fist off if you can go to your flickr page and post the medium image it would greatly help out. Some here do not have the fastest internet and will appreciate the gesture.
We have guidelines to images and 600pxls being the longest side is one of them.
Now for the image....very nice photo. I personally would crop off the bottom getting rid of the minimal amount of the railing and also would make the image more of a landscape. Seems to be a bit more square than normal landscape shots. I think the overall tonemapping is nice but the sky seems a bit too aqua on my monitor.
Great photo and nice work...did you shoot any of this zoomed in on the sculpture?

opps, saw the rules right after I posted, changed to medium!

I tried cropping the fence off, it took away from scene to me, it is a big squarish due to straighting / cropping, I was shooting with a DSC-H7 and the screen is very hard to see in sunlight, here is the original before cropping. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/...cb6af9f1bd.jpg

I think it was very slightly zoomed in, I agree I should have dialed back the sky's contrast, I think I'll try that actually!

[carl yeomans]

hi rsplatpc. i can only say the same as pinball on this. i also noticed a lot of CA on you pic. purple fringing.

[rsplatpc]

Originally Posted by carl yeomans

hi rsplatpc. i can only say the same as pinball on this. i also noticed a lot of CA on you pic. purple fringing.

yep I am a beginner and don't have the best tripod, it was a tad windy and the shots were not totally perfectly aligned causing that, gonna bring some sandbags next windy day!

[xxpinballxx]

wind will kill a HDR in no time....I've tried many a time but movement ven the smallest really affected the shot. I do love HDRs and would like to do more with them...my problem is i catch the shot and forget about trying a few under and over exposed to create an HDR...LOL! too much to remember and not enough time to execute them all.

[rsplatpc]

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

wind will kill a HDR in no time....I've tried many a time but movement ven the smallest really affected the shot. I do love HDRs and would like to do more with them...my problem is i catch the shot and forget about trying a few under and over exposed to create an HDR...LOL! too much to remember and not enough time to execute them all.

Loving my new Alpha A700, has bracketing that is custom, so you can set it to shoot in 5 steps from -0.7ev to +0.7ev just by holding the shutter, you can actually shoot HDR handheld in daylight, and with a tripod just set up the first shot and hold the shutter button for and instant 5 shot HDR, very cool!

[xxpinballxx]

That probably the only downfall to my D40 is the lack of bracketing....very neat feature. Can you set it for bracketing and trigger it with remote or self timer?

[rsplatpc]

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

That probably the only downfall to my D40 is the lack of bracketing....very neat feature. Can you set it for bracketing and trigger it with remote or self timer?

with a wired remote you can operate it just like you were pressing the shutter, with the included wireless remote the burst setting is wireless so you can't, but quality wired remotes are about $20 off eBay, not bad at all! LOVE the feature!

[carl yeomans]

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

That probably the only downfall to my D40 is the lack of bracketing....very neat feature. Can you set it for bracketing and trigger it with remote or self timer?

i use my d40 more than the d50,even tho it has bracketing. for hrd i allways shot raw and make my hdr from raw files. you tend to get less or no fringeing that way, and no alighing or ghosting probs