lonely parking garage

I tried to keep all the artifacts from lurking into this photo, but there is still some haloing here and there.

any positive or negative comments? This is a self portrait

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Very cool effects. Care to explain how you did it? Just different shots? Those cones are mighty big.

looks like an HDR image to me.

it's one of my typical 5 exposure HDR shots. I used photomatix and CS3 to complete the illusion.

Man... everybody keeps talking about HDR shots. I gotta learn how to do them.

It is difficult to take self photos, but you pulled this one off nicely. I'm not really into HDR that much but it works here. The haloing though is a nuisance; I encounter the same thing in much of my photos. What you can do is make a selection of the person (yourself) using the lasso tool or your selection tool of choice, then invert the selection so that you would be working on the background. Next take your clone tool, set it at 'Darken' blending mode. Set an appropriately toned area outside the halo as your target source, and clone it into the halos. This will (hopefully) get rid of the haloing effect without affecting the main subject. I hope this helps!

On a side note, I thought that was you at the avatar!

If in Photoshop and the subject is on a separate layer, go to Layer > Matting > ...

There are three tools in there that work great for those kinds of things. My 2 cents.

i usually get rid of the halo by just cloning it out. but on this pic, I liked it.

yea, my avatar is the architect from the 2nd/3rd matrix movie

Ah agreed. It does look a bit ethereal.

HDR! the new selective coloring!!