My first HDR!

[philubonmat]

I'm a newbie of SLR world. Some picture in the park near my house.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh300/philubonmat2/-6resize.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh300/philubonmat2/-19resize.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh300/philubonmat2/-10resize.jpg

[CameraBuff]

I like all three.

[canonloader]

Great shots. The clouds look awesome.

[randy.wick]

I like the compositions-- very peaceful. But there appears to be a little bit of ghosting in the trees. Do you have links to full-sized images?

[philubonmat]

Thanks all!
To randy.wick: I'm so sorry, only resize images, but if you want full size images, i'll send for you.

[randy.wick]

Oh, not necessary. I just had an idea based on the third I thought might be fun and also wanted to see what the difference between the taller and shorter trees was at higher res.

I made some light edits to the third but now notice you don't have a "image editing ok" tag below your info. Do you mind if I upload it to show you what I'm talking about?

[philubonmat]

Ok, randy.wick. You can do it. I hope i can see new idea with the third from you.

[randy.wick]

Okay :) I didn't take it as far as I might have, or perhaps refine it as much as I should have, but the lighting in the cloud gave me this idea and I thought it might be fun to explore it a little!

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm153/lastrandy/-10resize_RandysEdit.jpg

[philubonmat]

That so good randy.wick:lol:. How can you do that?

[randy.wick]

Thanks :)

More fun to portray how things should have looked, IMHO :)

[-Douglas-]

nice shots philu, randy, I think you got Close Encounters of the Third Kind captured !

[randy.wick]

That so good randy.wick:lol:. How can you do that?
Sorry, didn't realize you'd asked how. I used photoshop. I darkened the entire image using a curves adjustment layer (dragged the center down-right). Then I created a new layer and used a soft brush to make the shape I wanted in a golden color coming from the cloud (straight lines by clicking once, holding shift, and clicking again at the line's conclusion), then blurred that layer quite significantly (200 or so Gaussian blur), then set the blend mode for that layer to soft light. I wasn't quite satisfied with it so I set the layer style to inner glow with a similar color and that pretty much did what I wanted!

[philubonmat]

Thanks your kindness randy.wick!

[randy.wick]

You bet! Looking at it more, it would be more "realistic" if the whole sky had somewhat of an orange tint, suggesting the clouds were blocking some sunlight that could actually be that color...