My ugly backyard.

[MikeFairbanks]

This is a really cheesy HDR, but it dramatically improved my backyard. My wife liked it. The rainbarrel was really orange, so I had to outline it and desaturate it by 30% to get it back to a more realistic color.

Enjoy. And, as always, feel free to critisize, ridicule, edit, throw up, etc.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q295/thepirannah/Backyard3.jpg

[Scottes]

This isn't bad at all - except for the bent pole on the left. Is that bent in real life?

But this hangs between real and surreal, and doesn't seem to have a home. Back off a bit and you should have a very nice reality version. A bit stronger on the sliders and you should have an interesting surreal version. But having it be in the middle ground doesn't work for me.

[MikeFairbanks]

No, the pole isn't bent. Must be lens distortion.

This isn't a serious work, so I'm going to just leave it the way it is and forget about it.

I haven't had a decent sky yesterday or today, so I haven't been able to do any really good HDR.

But tonight I think I'm going to try some nighttime stuff.

[Scottes]

But tonight I think I'm going to try some nighttime stuff.
Good luck. I'm still fighting to see if I can get Photomatix to do a decent job on some of my old night HDRs. They came out OK using CS3 Merge-to-HDR, but a bit flat, so I'm hoping that PM can do something more interesting. If not, it's time to try some other HDR programs...

[wolfden]

note all the purple highlighting going on also

[MikeFairbanks]

note all the purple highlighting going on also


Yeah, you're right. I didnt' think of that.

Of course, I didn't take much time to compose either. It's a bad shot.