Night HDR, opinions on processing, and composition:

[milosh]

Hello everyone,

Here's a photo I finished processing today, it's a night HDR, made from 3 exposures, tonemapped in Photomatix and then processed in PS.

In PS I lighetened it up a bit, increased contrast with curves, adjusted the light temp. a bit, and sharpened it. The colours may seem too warm for you, but this is how they actually were.

What do you think about the processing and the composition? Is processing overdone?

Thanks for your input.

[Abhi]

I like it ...nice composition and definitely not over-processed.

[LeeR]

I would agree that you have not over-processed the image. Few things are uglier than over processed HDR images but you have managed to avoid that trap. The composition is OK, but not great. I get the feeling that the sidewalk is leaning one direction and the trees and lamposts the other direction to balance it out. I'm also not sure about the white balance. I suspect some tweaking in that area would be helpful.

[Wesnile]

Yeah I think if you tweaked the white balance in camera, the coloring would have come out better.

[milosh]

Thanks for your opinions.

I did a new shoot in the same park last night. I used a different lens (sharper, 35mm f1.8), bit different composition, I used in-camera preset incandescent white balance and what is most important, quality of the light was way better last night, there was no fog and it was pretty clear.

I will process it and post it here again, for you to comment. It should be better than this one.


As for this image, I tried to use preset WB settings, but there was no difference. And honestly, I was hoping for a more refined look than this one. You see the noise/oversharpening effect in the path just in front of the camera? It doesn't look like that in Photoshop, but when I upload it, it does. Don't know why!??