Just playing around with HDR in Photoshop and combining with a couple of additional filters trying to make it a little more interesting and artistic.
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Nice makes for a more interesting image to me.
Interesting . . . certainly more of an illustration with the PP. I think the cloud looks a little more stuck onto the chimney in the illustration, which i find distracting, but to each his own.
One normal and the other seems too overdone. HDR to me is more what our eyes see and your example is more artise, The areas that were in the shadows are not in proportion of the outside. In PhotoShop you could add a new layer and capture the areas that are overblown and bring them back a notch and even the picture if that is your desire.
The stone texture of the building looks awesome. The only area that bothers me is the significant brightness of blue in the fence. I can see where it comes from, for there is plenty of blue in the original capture. I agree with OwlHarber about using a new layer, in this case, to isolate the fence wood. About the cloud and the chimney, it looked a little that way from the original capture. Perhaps some PS erasing some of the cloud pixels at the very beginning.
Overall, I think you did very well. As a science teacher and photographer, I'd encourage you to continue doing HDR. I teach my students that the eye has a dynamic rage of 10^12 power, yet the best camera can capture a small fraction of that. Via a three image capture in HDR, you can seriously expand the dynamic rage of a single capture.
My objective in doing the HDR was not to just improve the image in the shadows and highlights etc. It was to create something more abstract and artistic. Something that catches the eye as being "different". That's why, in addition to HDR, I used some of the filters in Photoshop. I do agree that the cloud above the chimney does look like it is stuck to the chimney but that's where it was when i shot it. I guess I could put some space in between the two in Photoshop to separate them. Maybe I'll try that. Thanks for the comments.
Bob,
The smoke from the chimney is the only thing that I'd change. Now hearing what your goal is, I think you are doing Excellently with your work. I think there can always exist a very fine line between capture photography and artistic photography. The second is where you are residing, and I'd enjoy seeing more.
Bill
It is about creating an image not cloning what you see with the naked eye. He said he was trying to make it more interesting and artistic.
Here's another example of the kind of abstract, artsy photos I am experimenting with. Pretty much followed the same steps as the stone house above.
bobburk3 wrote:
Just playing around with HDR in Photoshop and combining with a couple of additional filters trying to make it a little more interesting and artistic.
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What filters? When did you apply them?
lsupremo wrote:
What filters? When did you apply them?
I kind of wing it as I go along, depending on the subject. I probably started with poster edges and then went to HDR and then to oil paint and then to cutout. But sometimes I go to one of these filters more than once as I experiment with the various looks, and decide where to go next, depending on what the image looks like. I also mess with camera raw filter and the vibrance and saturation filters there. I really jump around so I can't tell you exactly what I did because I don't even know myself. Some images lend themselves to these techniques better than others. Sometimes I am surprised by the results. I have a bunch of images on Instagram under the name of bobburk3. Take a look there and tell me what you think. Good luck. By the way I shoot with a DSLR Nikon in RAW. I only shoot in RAW. Some of the images on my Instagram account are from my iPhone but most are from my Nikon. Most are the D3100 but I just bought a D7200 and I really like it. I bought a factory refurbished from Camerita Camera. They have some great deals on equipment and are very reliable and fast shipping.
Don't stop now. Show us some more.
elliott937 wrote:
Don't stop now. Show us some more.
Here's a few more fun pictures. As I said earlier I have a lot more on my instagram account at bobburk3. Feel free to take a look and comment. Thanks for your interest.
Nice, but somewhere in between would have been great.
Don
donrosshill wrote:
Nice, but somewhere in between would have been great.
Don
I guess that all depends on what your ultimate goal is. To each his own. I was going more for creative art rather than just enhanced normal pictures.
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