Winter landscape in HDR: I've added an HDR effect in Picassa to this photo. I would like your opinion on composition, subject and effect. I would also like to reduce the white flaring...

geolaval Loc: Laval, Quebec

I've added an HDR effect in Picassa to this photo. I would like your opinion on composition, subject and effect. I would also like to reduce the white flaring around the trees as simply as possible and would appreciate knowing your prefered technique. Fell free to illustrate as you wish. I thank you for any assistance you can provide.

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wlgoode Loc: Globe, AZ

I use HDR effect in Picassa with a lot of fade to sharpen the photo. The sharpen tool hardly sharpens anything.

Travesty Loc: Chicago Burbs, USA

geolaval wrote:

I've added an HDR effect in Picassa to this photo. I would like your opinion on composition, subject and effect. I would also like to reduce the white flaring around the trees as simply as possible and would appreciate knowing your prefered technique. Fell free to illustrate as you wish. I thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Love the subject..The edit seems a bit flat. I am not sure your edit brought out the full potential of the shot, but would not know that without seeing the original..... I would love a shot at editing the original exposure if not only for challenging myself and maybe exploring some other possibilities for you.... No pressure and please do not take offense to my comment.. Only my opinion, but I think there may be a bit more hiding in the image that could show itself...

geolaval Loc: Laval, Quebec

Travesty wrote:

Love the subject..The edit seems a bit flat. I am not sure your edit brought out the full potential of the shot, but would not know that without seeing the original..... I would love a shot at editing the original exposure if not only for challenging myself and maybe exploring some other possibilities for you.... No pressure and please do not take offense to my comment.. Only my opinion, but I think there may be a bit more hiding in the image that could show itself...

Thanks for your offer travesty. Looking forward to your version.
I am never offended when someone is willing to provide an answer or opinion, whatever it may be.

EDIT: I just added the download version

Download added. Just B4 HDR

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Travesty Loc: Chicago Burbs, USA

geolaval wrote:

Thanks for your offer travesty. Looking forward to your version.
I am never offended when someone is willing to provide an answer or opinion, whatever it may be.

EDIT: I just added the download version

I typically do 3 exposure HDR... Working with a single exposure is a bit different for the fact of not being able to blend darker and lighter exposure for effect.. I can tell the sky will be an issue for the fact of not having a darker exposure to blend... Let me see what I can come up with...

Travesty Loc: Chicago Burbs, USA

geolaval wrote:

Thanks for your offer travesty. Looking forward to your version.
I am never offended when someone is willing to provide an answer or opinion, whatever it may be.

EDIT: I just added the download version

This is a quick edit using Photomatix... I left the original sky but enhanced the contrast and color a bit..... I also cropped a bit more.. If I had more time I would have worked on removing some of the trees on the right hand side... Not sure if this is to your liking, but I do appreciate you letting me play with it for a bit... :) It may also be a bit gritty for you...

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SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

geolaval wrote:

Thanks for your offer travesty. Looking forward to your version.
I am never offended when someone is willing to provide an answer or opinion, whatever it may be.

EDIT: I just added the download version

Here's a black and white version. I liked the basic composition but was not fond of the over saturated version. After changing to B/W I recomposed some, adjusted contrast and here's the result.

Winter Landscape

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Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Geolaval, I don't know if you've read it here before, but I have devised a method I call the "cheap man's de-haloing effect". Your original photo shows haloing about the trees where they meet the skyline. I use the Blur tool, method: Darken; Opacity: 75%, with a soft brush (about 33 pixels), then run it over the portions of the photo where the haloing occurs. It doesn't remove it completely, but blends it in enough so as not to be so noticeable.

geolaval Loc: Laval, Quebec

Travesty wrote:

I typically do 3 exposure HDR... Working with a single exposure is a bit different for the fact of not being able to blend darker and lighter exposure for effect.. I can tell the sky will be an issue for the fact of not having a darker exposure to blend... Let me see what I can come up with...

I will be looking closer at your posted versions later on and get back to you. But for now,
I'm curious to know if one were to replicate an original at +1 and then -1 F stop, would it then be of any value to use the 3 images as a 3 exposure HDR? So far I have some experience with in camera HDR and Picassa HDR effect.
I do however have some bracketed 3 photo shots that could help me explore this. Does this make sense to you?
Thanks.

geolaval Loc: Laval, Quebec

SonyA580 wrote:

Here's a black and white version. I liked the basic composition but was not fond of the over saturated version. After changing to B/W I recomposed some, adjusted contrast and here's the result.

Thanks for you suggestion SonyA580. I appreciate that you took the time to illustrate. I like your take on composition. It draws more attention to the stream of water in the center of the photo. Which PP program did you use. I have Picassa and PSE 11.

geolaval Loc: Laval, Quebec

Bob Yankle wrote:

Geolaval, I don't know if you've read it here before, but I have devised a method I call the "cheap man's de-haloing effect". Your original photo shows haloing about the trees where they meet the skyline. I use the Blur tool, method: Darken; Opacity: 75%, with a soft brush (about 33 pixels), then run it over the portions of the photo where the haloing occurs. It doesn't remove it completely, but blends it in enough so as not to be so noticeable.

Thanks for the recipe Bob, I will save this and try it on my landscape.

Shine11 Loc: London UK

Try using the clone stamping photoshop ... It works well on this problem sometimes

kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.

Since you only posted one copy of the original HDR . Here is a quick way of making changes to your photo . Inside PS CC , I used the filter HDR Efex Pro 2 Tone Mapping Single Image , and selected Bright . It was the only thing I did to your photo .. It has many samples to choose from , and you can still make adjustments after too , if you like .... Hope this helps some or others that only have one copy to work with . Tommy

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SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

geolaval wrote:

Thanks for you suggestion SonyA580. I appreciate that you took the time to illustrate. I like your take on composition. It draws more attention to the stream of water in the center of the photo. Which PP program did you use. I have Picassa and PSE 11.

I use PS 7.0 ...., an oldie but a goodie.

Travesty Loc: Chicago Burbs, USA

geolaval wrote:

I will be looking closer at your posted versions later on and get back to you. But for now,
I'm curious to know if one were to replicate an original at +1 and then -1 F stop, would it then be of any value to use the 3 images as a 3 exposure HDR? So far I have some experience with in camera HDR and Picassa HDR effect.
I do however have some bracketed 3 photo shots that could help me explore this. Does this make sense to you?
Thanks.

Geo, I usually use 3 shots bracketed at -2, 0 , +2..... Digitally changing the value in software is very limited.... I would and I am sure others would have a go at some bracketed shots for you.... :)