Yellowstone Geyser

I wasn't really impressed with the original on this so I decided to try HDR on it... Yay or Nay?

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Let's see the original please!

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I like the HDR version....you can see more detail in the trees and the clouds. It also adds a little more color to the rest of the picture...nice job.

I also like the HDR version.

Nice! Is there one with it shooting up?

the hdr is good, only thing is that the sky is kinda dark...or maybe its just my screen.

J/w but isnt this technically a hotspring? i thought geyzers shoot up...

I like the HDR. I don't care for the bright spot ( reflection from the sun ) It draws my eye away from the rest of the image. Also, if it were mine, I would crop some of the foreground away, thus putting more focus on the pool. I made a copy and cloned out the bright spot and took off some from the bottom of the photo. Looks good to me this way...try it and see.

I like the foreground part of the HDR, very nice. The clouds are a little too dark in the HDR though, maybe try and find a mid ground between both the shots for the clouds.

I also like the HDR version but, I'm not to crazy about the clouds.

powerslave wrote in post #6823076
Nice! Is there one with it shooting up?

No, I was wrong, as zeva pointed out, this is a hotspring. lol I will post a geyser or two later on though.

ONe photo wrote in post #6823281
the hdr is good, only thing is that the sky is kinda dark...or maybe its just my screen.

zeva wrote in post #6823294
J/w but isnt this technically a hotspring? i thought geyzers shoot up...

ajosteve wrote in post #6823918
I like the HDR. I don't care for the bright spot ( reflection from the sun ) It draws my eye away from the rest of the image. Also, if it were mine, I would crop some of the foreground away, thus putting more focus on the pool. I made a copy and cloned out the bright spot and took off some from the bottom of the photo. Looks good to me this way...try it and see.

damansidhu wrote in post #6824461
I like the foreground part of the HDR, very nice. The clouds are a little too dark in the HDR though, maybe try and find a mid ground between both the shots for the clouds.

jdizzle wrote in post #6825931
I also like the HDR version but, I'm not to crazy about the clouds.

I will redo this again, brightening the sky and removing the reflection from the pool... or at least trying to. lol I'll post it again later on. I am kind of busy today though.

Thanks for all the comments and feedback, I really appreciate it.

I like the color of the spring in the original better and the clouds. About a five minute edit to bring together what I thought were the best of the two images:

Ryan, would you care to explain what it was you did?

Really simple as I only know the basics. all I did was put the HDR over the original and selected the eraser, but the hardness to about 88% and lowered the opacity. And just erased through the parts of the HDR image I didn't care for and brought through parts from the original underneath.