First time posting here. Found this very unusual sculpture. The hard part was trying to find a proper exposure to bring out the delicate red veins on this big white globe which is about 8 ft tall.
10 photos from shutter speed 1/6 to 1/125 sec. Early morning light. Afternoon light is to bright and harsh and keeped blowing out the white orb.
Added a little HDR and some color correction and I think I almost accomplished the look I was after.
Thanks for looking
Steve
I think you did an excellent job.
elliott937 and djtravels
Thank you
So... with an on-camera-flash, does the pupil turn red?
... pretty cool shot!
In our great world of photography, you, my friend, are taking the process not to the next step, but to the next ten steps.
With pride, I bring my physics students to the realization that our eyes have the ability to process a dynamic range of a trillion:one, or 1,000,000,000,000 : 1. That's the range between the weakest light image we can perceive until the point when we say "it's too bright for comfort". We have amazing cameras, but the sensors cannot capture a range even close to that. Solution? HDR photography, and your image is showing an example of that. Congrats.
fuminous wrote:
So... with an on-camera-flash, does the pupil turn red?
... pretty cool shot!
Of course it does. But here, you get this very nice blown out white spot
elliott937 wrote:
In our great world of photography, you, my friend, are taking the process not to the next step, but to the next ten steps.
With pride, I bring my physics students to the realization that our eyes have the ability to process a dynamic range of a trillion:one, or 1,000,000,000,000 : 1. That's the range between the weakest light image we can perceive until the point when we say "it's too bright for comfort". We have amazing cameras, but the sensors cannot capture a range even close to that. Solution? HDR photography, and your image is showing an example of that. Congrats.
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Thanks Elliott. Very kind words
There is one of these smack in the middle of downtown Dallas but yours has a much better backdrop.
CPR
Loc: Nature Coast of Florida
Very nicely done. Shows the value of appropriate post-processing.
I think you did a good job. The second image looks realistic. Too many people like HDR so much they overdo it. Yours looks natural which is the point, I think. Unless you have a idea in mind that calls for exaggerating or warping reality.
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