Cape Florida Light

is this HDR? interesting shot but I feel like its cropped too close?

The very slightly over bright foiliage suggests hdr, distracting one's attention from what is an otherwise excellent image.

HDR? yes. This was taken at sundown and there was very little light to work with. I was really hoping to go for natural look with it though and think I went abit overboard with the vibrance. I've toned down the greens and adjusted the crop. Maybe it works better now?

Great composition and great use of HDR, it still looks a bit natural.

I think it looks great. Maybe dodge the tower a bit to make it stand out a bit more

I like this shot. Nice compostion imo too. It looks like a ccomputer animated shot. (from a video game)

I like the HDR look great job!

Nice shot.

corkneyfonz wrote in post #11315169
The very slightly over bright foiliage suggests hdr, distracting one's attention from what is an otherwise excellent image.

I agree. I'd tone it down a little.

I really like this image, the sky, the detail of the tower is just awesome, I like the processing quite a bit, so well done on that.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Nice image, but it still looks awfully over-processed to me; I'd be curious to see the original. Does the lighthouse really taper that drastically?

This is a brilliant shot. The sky is very, very nice. Yes, it does look overprocessed, but one coud argue that could be the style of the image you want and it certainly makes the image pop (everyone will have an opinion on whether it pops too much). It would be interesting to see the original photograph. Has this been cropped at all from the original, because it could do with a little more headroom above the lighthouse and at the bottom to include the whole of the curved section of fencing.

Yes, the lighthouse does naturally have that curvature. Here is the original at normal exposure

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rioni wrote in post #11329878
Yes, the lighthouse does naturally have that curvature. Here is the original at normal exposure

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Great composition and its a great location. The shot does seem to have a bit of lens distortion. Hope you dont mind, but rather than faux HDR a single shot,try highlight adjusting the shot and toning down the saturation a bit.

Armando