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Beautiful shot mcm. Does the light house seem to be leaning towards the sea though? Maybe it’s really like that, I don’t know. A bit of perspective correction should sort it out.
Beautiful shot. You did a great job of processing the hdr – it looks very natural.
this is outstanding Martin.. almost luminous and as said above quite natural looking at the same time.
Just for critiques sake, I will add that you could consider losing cm or 2 from the top – even then I am not sure it would improve it much -its already top class.
Gary
Really nice colours, would look excellent in a tourist book,
I was up there for the last couple of days though on the
Malin head side, no where near as pretty as this.Not wanting to comment on comments,
but I don’t get this at all-The main thing that confuses me is the colour-
while it looks acceptable in sRGB (Firefox and the others)
it looks completely unreal in Safari-
and that’s displaying the picture in its assigned colour profile, Adobe RGB-So if I could ask a question, what colour am I meant to be seeing?
Is the overall tone meant to be blue, or mauve?
I have to admit, I am viewing this on a laptop,
so it could be a problem with my 18 bit gamut…
most likely is, actually-
Would anyone be able to say what the difference in colour between browsers is like on a profiled monitor?But to avoid confusion,
pictures posted on the web should be posted in sRGB-Added to that, there are some more observations-
I don’t get HDR at the best of times,
and would much prefer if it were done subtly, and not trumpeted-
but this scene doesn’t look like it has the range that would necessitate its use.
Perhaps I’m wrong about that too-There is evidence of dodging in a few places (or whatever you might like to call it)
again, a technique that has to be used subtly, and with masks, preferably,
if it is not going to call attention to itself-
The graduated tone on the tower,
the halo around the headland,
and the brightness of the rock beneath the building all cry out for attention-
and in doing so, take away from the scene, and draw attention to the photography-It looks like this has been cropped from the original,
and that the crop was from the top-
Might it have been better to keep the camera level, to preserve the verticals?
And maybe crop from the bottom? Or not?
those rocks at the bottom middle seem to be neither here, nor there-OK, I should stop there…
As I said, I don’t get the universal acclaim with this one-
usually, I’d just pass it by-
but I’d be interested to know if I’m a lone voice here-
or whether I’m just wrong-Apologies for being out of line-
j
jb7 wrote:
As I said, I don’t get the universal acclaim with this one-
usually, I’d just pass it by-
but I’d be interested to know if I’m a lone voice here-
or whether I’m just wrong-Apologies for being out of line-
j
Then I too must apologise, for I did just pass it by, and for all
the reasons stated by the hardnecked Mr Seven above…I’m afraid I just don’t get it either. The HDR treatment is just a little
over the top and it looks as though the world might be about to end,
though not in some cataclysmic firework extravaganza…As in most photographs, the eye is usually drawn to the most detailed
aspect of an image, which in this case happens to be the foreground
rocks. As these almost disappear centre frame, it hardly constitutes a very
strong point of interest…There probably is a good picture here somewhere. Definitely worth another
visit, a little more thought on composition, and a lot more restraint when it
comes to processing your final image…Rob.
thanks for comments Rob, jb7… that’s what i call constructive critique… colors are real, at least as close to what i saw… clouds were very violet tinted… as it goes to dodging and burning i hardly ever use it… if i do… set to 1% and less than 2mins for both,,,
jb7… what masks were you talking about to and how used?
Thanks Martin-
when I refer to dodging, or whatever you might call it,
I think I mean the gradual tone effect visible on the tower-Once that becomes apparent,
then anything else might be assumed to have been worked on too.
For example, its possible that the halo around the headland is a sea spray,
but I’ve become aware of the processing on the tower, so I might assume that it has been manipulated also.
Possibly dodged-Equally,
the bright patch below the building might be natural,
but I’m not inclined to make that assumption first,
if I can see obvious anomalies elsewhere.By masks,
I mean making a selection of an area of image,
and working on that, to the exclusion of other parts of the image,
maybe on its own layer-It might have saved the tower from appearing unnaturally lit-
Perhaps you could look at posting pictures using a sRGB profile-
it might help prevent disagreements on the colour-Apologies for seeming to be unduly harsh earlier-
j
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