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Apr 22, 2008 13:49 |  #1

These pictures were taking right northwest of Lake Superior in Ontario. A little lake called Rabbit Blanket lake. I went up there for a camping trip, and ended up with some good shots. C&C welcome.

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Apr 22, 2008 14:02 |  #2

I like these...particularly #1!




  
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Apr 22, 2008 14:05 |  #3

WOW. love number one a lot. the crop is a little weird on number two though especially with the trees being cut off


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Apr 22, 2008 14:08 |  #4

#1 is awesome!


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Apr 22, 2008 14:16 |  #5

Thanks, guys. I originally couldn't do much with these pictures because they were really grey and drab looking, but stumbled on some HDR techniques and it just brought them to life.


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Apr 22, 2008 14:45 |  #6

It would be interesting to see the original pics...just to get an idea of how much the HDR processing improved things!

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Apr 22, 2008 15:04 as a reply to  @ nicksan's post |  #7

Yeah, here they are. Mind you these were pretty quickly shot pictures as it was getting really dark very fast, and I didn't have a tripod with me. Lucky for me I had just started taking pictures in RAW right before I went on this trip, so these still had the detail left in them. Big change, huh?

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Apr 22, 2008 15:14 |  #8

Yeah...BIG change!
So you basically "simulated" exposures from one then did HDR right?

Nice!

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Yeah, here they are. Mind you these were pretty quickly shot pictures as it was getting really dark very fast, and I didn't have a tripod with me. Lucky for me I had just started taking pictures in RAW right before I went on this trip, so these still had the detail left in them. Big change, huh?

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Apr 22, 2008 16:14 |  #9

aero528 wrote in post #5382142 (external link)
Thanks, guys. I originally couldn't do much with these pictures because they were really grey and drab looking, but stumbled on some HDR techniques and it just brought them to life.

Sure did, they look great.
Id like a bit more sky up top. As already said, the crop is very tight as its touching the trees.

Good pics though! :)


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Apr 22, 2008 16:16 |  #10

I used a program called Photomatix to do the HDR work. I created two pictures from those RAW pictures above, one at +2 exposure and one at -2 exposure, inputed them into the Photomatix program, messed with the tonality and white balance, outputted them back into photoshop(using a .tiff format), and finished with them in photoshop. Its really not that hard of a process actually. I'll get to take more pictures this summer, and i'm deffinatly going to try more HDR stuff. I'm not really happy with the crop on the second one, either. When I took the picture, I didn't have a lens big enough for me to zoom out anymore, and I had my back to a forest, so I couldn't move back. I'll see what I can do in photoshop to add some sudo sky.

Edit: Here is the second one with more sky. I just added it in photoshop, so its not really 'there', but I think it brings your focus up better. Let me know what you think.

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Apr 22, 2008 16:48 |  #11

Nice captures, but I don't care for the halos. How about this? Just a little shadow/highlights/leve​ls.


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Apr 22, 2008 16:52 |  #12

The only thing I don't like is the blue glow around the lower left rock.

Other than that, I like these images a lot.


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Apr 22, 2008 16:59 |  #13

That does look better, but the thing I loved about the HDR pics is how they just pop. Heres one thats not HDR, but I still think it pops out at you with the colors. Which do you like better? I don't think it pops as much, though.

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Apr 22, 2008 17:13 |  #14

You can only do some much before it looks fake. Your HDRs look fake. Your last one looks good though.

It looks like it was overcast. If it were shot with good light it would have been better. Still, it's a nice couple shots.


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Apr 22, 2008 21:08 as a reply to  @ Hikin Mike's post |  #15

love #1!!


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