Brunswick street art: Some magnificent street art by Taylor White, Shida, Two One and Eno in the Melbourne (Australia) suburb of Brunswick. Perspective adjustment and lens distortion...

andrew.haysom Loc: Melbourne, Australia

Some magnificent street art by Taylor White, Shida, Two One and Eno in the Melbourne (Australia) suburb of Brunswick.

Perspective adjustment and lens distortion removed in DxO Optics Pro, HDR merge done in Photomatix, final post processing in PS Elements 11.

Processed image

Original zero exposure

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Well done! The HDR treatment was subtle and not overblown which is my distinct preference. The color tonations here are excellent.

andrew.haysom Loc: Melbourne, Australia

Bob Yankle wrote:

Well done! The HDR treatment was subtle and not overblown which is my distinct preference. The color tonations here are excellent.

Thanks Bob, my HDR aim is always to return the image to what it really looked like to my eye, I appreciate your comment.
Andrew

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

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dave sproul Loc: Tucson AZ

Bob Yankle wrote:

Well done! The HDR treatment was subtle and not overblown which is my distinct preference. The color tonations here are excellent.

Well said :thumbup:

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

andrew.haysom wrote:

Some magnificent street art by Taylor White, Shida, Two One and Eno in the Melbourne (Australia) suburb of Brunswick.

Perspective adjustment and lens distortion removed in DxO Optics Pro, HDR merge done in Photomatix, final post processing in PS Elements 11.

Nice. You retrieved a lot of the "missing" shadow detail in the original.

Always enjoy looking at your work.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

The HDR was nicely done, and the photo has good clarity.

Regarding the cropping, I can't decide if the cropping off of the upper corner of the building interferes with its visual appeal, but it does draw my attention to that area.

As usual I enjoy your photo's of Street Art.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

SoHillGuy wrote:

The HDR was nicely done, and the photo has good clarity.

Regarding the cropping, I can't decide if the cropping off of the upper corner of the building interferes with its visual appeal, but it does draw my attention to that area.

As usual I enjoy your photo's of Street Art.

I assumed the cropping was a result of the straightening. Is that the case?

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Very nice. :thumbup: :thumbup:

andrew.haysom Loc: Melbourne, Australia

LoneRangeFinder wrote:

I assumed the cropping was a result of the straightening. Is that the case?

Yes it was, I considered both versions, and was slightly annoyed at chopping off the corner of the building, but prefered it still to the un-straightened one.

conkerwood

andrew.haysom wrote:

Yes it was, I considered both versions, and was slightly annoyed at chopping off the corner of the building, but prefered it still to the un-straightened one.

Hey Andrew.I haven't been around for a while. have been giving HDR a rest so that I can concentrate on trying to learn B&W conversion. But I stuck my head in and immediately recognised your work. And my comments about your HDR have not changed. Subtle application of the software, beautiful recovered details and,as usual, a delicate touch with colour and light. High quality stuff. But a couple of nitpicks (It wouldn't be me if I didn't.) The fire hydrant at the bottom looks like its just squeezed its way in, a fraction more left on the bottom may have helped. And I am confused about what seems to be an either or comment as far as cutting the top of the building at the top or am I misunderstanding you? Its perfectly possible to straighten the pic without having to crop the top using only the skew and distort commands. I did this on your 0 exposure because that is in its original state and it comes out perfectly which I would post but not without your permission.

Keep doing your thing, your stuff is always inspiring. Have a great Christmas and I hope Santa brings you that new photographic thingamajig that you have desperately wanting, whatever it is.

Peter

andrew.haysom Loc: Melbourne, Australia

conkerwood wrote:

Hey Andrew.I haven't been around for a while. have... (show quote)

Peter, yes I should spend more time and effort doing things like that, I will have a go at reprocessing this one as you suggest. Please feel free to post your re-do. You always have my permission to do so, we can learn so much by others playing with our stuff.

As far as Santa goes, he can't afford the new photography thing I want, and neither can I! The new 200-400 L series Canon lens with built in converter. Looks so sweet, but $15K+

conkerwood

andrew.haysom wrote:

Peter, yes I should spend more time and effort doing things like that, I will have a go at reprocessing this one as you suggest. Please feel free to post your re-do. You always have my permission to do so, we can learn so much by others playing with our stuff.

As far as Santa goes, he can't afford the new photography thing I want, and neither can I! The new 200-400 L series Canon lens with built in converter. Looks so sweet, but $15K+

Hmmm $15k+, sounds just what I need but methinks that is beyond my sweet talking ability so will remain satisfied with what I have for the moment. Have posted the pic of the crop without losing the top corner. Obviously not HDR processed, but just to show that you don't need to lose the top corner to fix the verticals. Use the skew command to drag in both the left and right corners until the ends are vertical. This will tend to change the proportions so that the building looks too tall and the bins look a little too thin. So the next step is to use the distort tool, just grab the top of the pic and drag it down until the original proportions are restored. Then crop.

andrew.haysom Loc: Melbourne, Australia

Peter,
Thanks again for the help and advice, always appreciated! Here's the re-processed version. What do you think?
Andrew