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.
I like this very much. The scene and composition are very pleasing and the HDR effect is not overpowering.
I agree with Cwilson341's remarks. I'll add that the DOF and detail are nicely done.
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 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.
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Rob Almeda wrote:
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.
...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.
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.
bobburk3 wrote:
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.
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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.
joecichjr
Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
bobburk3 wrote:
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.
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A superb piece of work ☀️☀️☀️☀️
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