Old South Church

[Scottes]

Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston, MA

http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/OldSouthChurch_102278_6_7.jpg

So this is my first daytime HDR that I found to be anywhere close to be worth posting. I'm having some problems in the clouds, and have fought them long enough tonight. Anyone have any idea how to fix the blotchiness, most noticeable on the right above the red building? (Photomatix 3.2)

Other than that, how's it look? Feel free to be brutal. I think I'm just starting to get the hang of doing this, but obviously have not yet gotten it completely.


One thing - how does it look for perspective - especially anyone who knows this church? (Brad? Oh Brad?)

This shot was taken with the Sigma 10-20mm, angled up to get the top of the tower. I fixed it using PTGui and adding a handful of vertical correction points. I couldn't get it to look right using Photoshop, either Lens Correction or any Transform. So I resorted to some t1 control points, something I understand.

[wolfden]

a lot of time with the sky, I will layer the original picture's sky into the photo and of course set an opacity till the sky looks good. With the layer you can bring in as much or little as you need.

[polarbare]

Hmm. maybe my browser is being weird but the pic isn't showing up for me. +1 on laying an original copy of the sky over the photomatix layer and then lowering the opacity, and masking to get a nice sky.

[Scottes]

My home Internet connection is down right now, so the pic isn't showing. Hopefully it will be back in a couple/few hours.

Yay, it's back.

[polarbare]

I think you already hit the points I'd make. The cloud thing may be fixed by what was posted above. When I shoot with the 10-20, I will usually take something like this as a 4 shot square "pano" and stitch it in Photoshop, then into Photomatix. That usually gives good results and will help ease the distortion as you're usually only using the center areas of each photo. Other than that I'd crop the left edge to lose the car.

I like the overall composition, and it looks like it was taken low to the ground which helps. This would be a great angle at night with the lamps lit.

[MikeFairbanks]

I like it. The yellow cloud is kind of distracting, but other than that I think it looks great.

[DeepWoods]

Other than the cloud you mentioned..I think it is Really Nice!

[Scottes]

Thanks for the comments folks. I'll have to play with the sky and compositing. It seems funny to do 2 HDRs and then composite them - I may just have to try another HDR program to see what I get.