Landscape: Do - The Path

[laatikko]

Blended from 5 different exposures one stop apart. Some tuning with curves and added a hint of yellow to warm up the light. Comments and especially critique is welcome (I know: the halo around the lamp is ugly).

[jgbeam]

I like this shot a lot. Great feel to it. The halo is fine - don't touch a thing. :)

Jim

[sameerb]

it's a good picture with nice bit of post processing.
at the same time light is little too bright for my liking

Cheers,
Sam

[MackRoe]

Man, you hit it tack on with that one....very interesting capture. It immediately evokes emotion...its got that "tales of Narnia" thing going on...majorly imaginative. Good job, dude...keep it up !

[Dimitry]

Nice shot! I've heard alot about blending but have yet to try it. Are there websites that have tutorials on them?

[Words]

Really nice shot - a great location. eerie feel if you happened to be there alone at 2 am in the morning ;)
its a little bit of a shame the light detracts from what should (imo) be the focal point of the exiting corner

still a wonderful capture

[CDickinson]

Composition seems ok but for me the snow is a little brown and could be whitened. Also seems oversharpened a bit.

C

[laatikko]

Articles about blending:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml
and
http://www.erik-krause.de/blending/

(I use the latter. Although it needs more work, it has given me better results.)


The snow looks brown because of the yellow I added in post-processing: The light from the lamp was very, very cold. In the original shots the snow is literally snow white. I just recalibrated my monitor and it seems that the snow is indeed brownish. I'll need to try to fix that but retain the warmth.

[OceanRider]

I like it!

Joel

[Scottes]

I like the shot a lot.

Have you tried this in sepia? The color now looks a little "in between" so not quite right. Don't get me wrong - I like it a lot - but it looks like a natural for sepia.

[Wazza]

I like the lonely path, but does look like too much sharpening. But done good, for the composition of the whole scene.

[laatikko]

Thank you for the comments and kind words. I'll definitely try the sepia.

The image actually is oversharpened, something like Radius 0.3, Amount 170, Threshold 0.

[IainB]

Love the colour! What other flavours does the snow come in round those parts?
Smart use of layers and blending.
IainB