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Please look away now ( if you hate HDR )

Mike-P
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:30 Link
Sold my Pentax DA 12-24mm f4 the other day as I rarely used it and picked up a cheaper Sigma 12-24mm f4.5/5.6. So decided to test the Sigma out today at Highcliffe castle .. and had a HDR fest.

All taken on the K10D with -1/0/+1 exposures processed in Photomatix Lite

Have gone a bit stronger than I normally would.

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Highcliffe Castle - HDR by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr
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Highcliffe Castle - HDR by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr
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Highcliffe Castle - HDR by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr
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Highcliffe Castle - HDR by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr
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Highcliffe Castle - HDR by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr
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Highcliffe Castle - HDR by Mike.Pursey, on Flickr
Gwyn
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:33 Link
I like them - except for the virulent green grass .

It looks like they've applied grass paint to it.

For that reason the last is my favourite.
womble
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:34 Link
Funnily enough the HDR isn't so extreme that it bothers me particularly but the converging verticals do. I can see with some of them you have deliberately gone for extreme convergence, but some could have been shot straight? Couldn't they? Or am I just being an old fusspot...?

Cheers, Kris.
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puma
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:36 Link
I have tried HDR with my K7 and KX but iam not shore if I like em or HDR mode but! I don’t mean I don’t like your photos, I do I mean just im not shore about HDR
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Mike-P
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:38 Link
Gwyn wrote:
I like them - except for the virulent green grass .

It looks like they've applied grass paint to it.

For that reason the last is my favourite.

I toned the grass down loads as well, you should have seen it before hand

womble wrote:
Funnily enough the HDR isn't so extreme that it bothers me particularly but the converging verticals do. I can see with some of them you have deliberately gone for extreme convergence, but some could have been shot straight? Couldn't they? Or am I just being an old fusspot...?

You are just being an old fusspot

Yes they could have been shot straight but I had an "artistic" moment
Gwyn
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:44 Link
Mike-P wrote:

Yes they could have been shot straight but I had an "artistic" moment

That's his excuse and he's sticking to it .
CoDa
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:49 Link
Not over the top HDR wise, except for the grass, your "artistic" moment is OK by me.
Colin

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matwhittington
Posted 30/09/2010 - 20:57 Link
I think they are rather good - I like them in any event and they are not as 'HDR' as many which you can see on the web. I especially like the last one of the set and the fourth. I rather fear I may have to have a go at the HDR lark myself...

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Oggy
Posted 30/09/2010 - 21:38 Link
To me you seem to have captured an unreal or even slightly macabre* atmosphere. Very good.

(*a George L approved word I think.)
Snootchies
Posted 30/09/2010 - 22:01 Link
4 and 6 for me Mike. I really like the composition of 4, but the moody and foreboding effect of 6 is excellent. Great stuff.
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Greytop
Posted 30/09/2010 - 22:02 Link
Numbers 1, 3 and 6 for me Mike, nice work, not too overdone and with a decent amount of contrast which some more conservative HDRs can tend to lack.
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aminstar
Posted 30/09/2010 - 22:15 Link
Mike, as I know you are not a big fan of heavy HDR processing I can tell you that these images are pretty good. And against all the flow I must say the green grass is the most appealing part for me visually.
You should do more HDR as you seem to have a very keen artistic inclination to bring the beauty out of structures like these .

Is that the new K10 you are trying?
Edited by aminstar: 30/09/2010 - 22:15
TonyM
Posted 30/09/2010 - 22:52 Link
HDR is nice, and I usually hate it. But I'm definitely with Kris in the fusspot camp. Your artistic moment I'm afraid detracts for me! As for the grass - I'm on the fence

Tony
ChrisA
Posted 30/09/2010 - 22:58 Link
Mike-P wrote:
womble wrote:
Funnily enough the HDR isn't so extreme that it bothers me particularly but the converging verticals do. I can see with some of them you have deliberately gone for extreme convergence, but some could have been shot straight? Couldn't they? Or am I just being an old fusspot...?

You are just being an old fusspot

Ooh, can I be an old fusspot too?

The CVs bug me too. I can get over the excessive HDR once I tune into the look, and the green (hey, I was a Konica film fan years ago!!)...

But I'm with Orinoco on the verticals.
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Mike-P
Posted 30/09/2010 - 23:01 Link
Hmmm, it just seem to me that you are trying to stifle my artistic creativity.

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