Cheers msclman99. I really was trying for a "normal" HDR shot without all the weird effects it can give. I do like that effect in HDR, but I wanted to get one that didn't have that style. If there was a rusty car on the beach maybe, but for just a simple beach shot it would have made it not as nice I reckon......like my first one, which i'm 50/50 about.
polarbare wrote in post #8474001
sounds to me like you understand it just fine.
I think both images are fine in terms of processing, personally, I prefer the 2nd one. You could also try duplicating the original layer on the first one and setting the opacity on it low, say 25%, to tone down the photomatix a little, that would get rid of some of that metallic look you're talking about.
Thanks for the feedback polarbare.
Interesting you say about the duplicating and blending with the original. I used a mixed original/blended sky in the second one as I felt the photomatix sky was out of place with the rest of the image.
I actually went down there yesterday to try out an 8 stop ND filter to get the slow shutter daytime ocean look, but got there to find no swell, so I did some bracketing whilst I was there.
The second show is absolutely fantastic. Very nice work!
The first looks a little "off" to me. I can't pin-point. I have to agree with what you said "half of me likes, the other half doesn't"
Thanks scottes, I could have another go at the first one for practice, but I think I should just find a better composition. The area is nice, I just need to work out how to shoot it.
Very nice; the first seems to need a little more sky. #2 is very nice all the way around!
CameraBuff: Thanks! I was concentrating on getting as much rocks into the first pic as I felt whilst it was a nice day, there was nothing fancy in the sky, no clouds at all I basically forgot to get enough sky, then when I aligned the horizon and tried to remove the lens distortion I ended up with even less sky! I'll put that down to lack of experience!
I forgot to mention, the blurred water effect is from an 8 stop ND filter and polariser. The exposures were down to around .5 second +/- a couple of stops. I got most of the colors back to "normal" in the raw conversion, but I assume this might have something to do with the color base it has? The second shot is only with a polariser.
oh, and I just noticed someones jumper draped over a rock in the second shot. I remember walking past it on the walk in, prob left by a fisho, but didn't think about it until I saw it in the shot just then....ah well!
