Baltimore City -Pagoda
Dec 15, 2016 07:36:08 #
I shot this in Patterson Park in Baltimore just as the Fall colors were pretty much all gone. This one tree seemed to retain its color and made a good foreground to draw attention to the Pagoda. My camera doesn't do bracketing automatically so I manually bracketed this shot with the camera on a tripod. It was quite overcast on the day I shot this so I thought maybe HDR was the way to salvage the shot. I tried to keep it as natural looking as I could while still taking advantage of the HDR features.
Dec 15, 2016 09:08:22 #
I like this very much. The scene and composition are very pleasing and the HDR effect is not overpowering.
Dec 15, 2016 15:35:27 #
I agree with Cwilson341's remarks. I'll add that the DOF and detail are nicely done.
Dec 15, 2016 16:36:52 #
Your camera probably can do bracketing. Your rendering of HDR is amazing. If it was me shooting the scene, I will move a little bit to the right so that the sky will show to the left of the pagoda.
bobburk3 wrote:
I shot this in Patterson Park in Baltimore just as... (show quote)
Dec 15, 2016 18:33:17 #
Rob Almeda wrote:
...You're right about moving the camera a little to the right to get all of the pagoda and sky to the left. I noticed that when I got home and looked at all the shots. I have a Nikon D3100 and, as far as I know, it can not do automatic bracketing. Nikon wants you to spend a lot more money on the camera before they give you that feature.Your camera probably can do bracketing. Your rendering of HDR is amazing. If it was me shooting the scene, I will move a little bit to the right so that the sky will show to the left of the pagoda.
Dec 16, 2016 14:29:33 #
bobburk3 wrote:
...You're right about moving the camera a little to the right to get all of the pagoda and sky to the left. I noticed that when I got home and looked at all the shots. I have a Nikon D3100 and, as far as I know, it can not do automatic bracketing. Nikon wants you to spend a lot more money on the camera before they give you that feature.
Get an older model like the d300. Brackets up to 9 exposures. You can likely find one for $200-$300.
Dec 16, 2016 23:27:27 #
bobburk3 wrote:
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This is a very nice picture. But I took the liberty to do two things.
1) I lowered the exposure just a tiny bit.
2) I reduce the saturation just a little bit too.
Often I find that the HDR process saturates just a bit too much leaving it somewhat unnatural. With this image, I was finding the grass just a bit over saturated and this toned it down just a bit.
When I first looked at the image, the tower seemed to lean to the right, but when I had it in Photoshop, I carefully looked at this and did not find it leaning. So I suppose there is some optical illusion going on here.
Aug 21, 2021 18:00:10 #
bobburk3 wrote:
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A superb piece of work ☀️☀️☀️☀️
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