Landscapes

[Letrow]

that's pretty much what I did..the HDR was too-too, you know..too-too, so I copied the original post edited print back onto the HDR image and used varying layer options to add and subtract. I like it, and I don't like it...weird, eh?

I think I know what you mean. The photo looks good in a certain way and you know that e.g. those clouds are possible under certain circumstances, but your mind is telling you at the same time that something in the lighting is different.
Good to be experimenting with this though, I think some great results can be had, but it is a delicate process I think. Too much of this is not good, but middle ground works now and then.

[Antonio Correia]

Geesh Antonio, I may as well send my pics to you. I have Lightroom and Elements 9 and I can't get anything like that yet...

Yes, Reed. Not yet You will get there I am sure.
Let's see if this small video works I mean, if I have done it correctly

I don't know why the video doesn't work in the window.
Here it is however...

[MiniChris]

My Lasting Memory of Maine

[Antonio Correia]

Very cool image Chris

[satomi]

Nice picture Satomi
You shooted in very hard conditions: the contrast was really high!
let me say some possible improvements, in my humble opinion.
first of all I think you have to decide what is your subject : the sky (over the city) or the water (under the city )
if the sky, you have to underexpose the picture in order to recover the burned withe area on the clouds and make the sky more dramatic; doing so you will lost any details on the city (that are barely visible, and so not so important), that turns to be a silouette.
oh, I've forgot, cut the water in order to place the city in the lowest third of the frame.
if the water, cut the sky just above the buildings and "turn on" the light to make visible the details of the city
these operations could be done with the post processing software, if it is a raw file,
but the best way is to shot again
a circular polarized filter could help you very much in these conditions....

cheers
Nicola

Post scriptum
sorry for my poor english...

Thank you Nicola, for a very helpful and constructive feedback. I still have a ton to learn; I feel that with a better software I'd be able to achieve better results than what I am getting now, however I agree that I should focus more on getting better shots on site ie. subject and composition.

[satomi]

This is another shot by the Charles river in MA from the Boston side, taken a few months back.

[Antonio Correia]

Which program do you use Satomi, please

[satomi]

These photos were both using iPhoto on my macbook.. very embarrassed to say.

[Reed Waters]

Wow, my very own UTube video. Thank you Antonio for that. It's all a matter of looking at your pic and seeing what to change and how. I am considering going back and redoing all of my pics. Some, like the tree on the beach are almost a year old. I would like to think that I've learned something since then.

[PhotoByTrace]

From my recent trip to the US... this photo was taken at Watkins Glen State Park in the Finger Lakes district of NY.

[arith]

You could have seen this before but I Gimped it up a bit.

[dje]

From my recent trip to the US... this photo was taken at Watkins Glen State Park in the Finger Lakes district of NY.

Nice shot Trace. Looks like an interesting place.

Cheers Dave

[dje]

You could have seen this before but I Gimped it up a bit.

Great shot Steve. I can see a hundred "happy snappers" taking this shot from a similar angle and ending up with some pretty ordinary results but you've really nailed it. Love the border too.

Cheers Dave

[Reed Waters]

This was taken in a county graveyard. There is an old stone wall all the way around the graveyard. The pile behind the tree is the foundation of a small church.

I was walking around looking for shots of the grave stones. I turned around in the lower corner of the graveyard and there was the tree.

C & C welcome.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

You could have seen this before but I Gimped it up a bit.

10xBRAVO!!!!

[Dons]

hello everyone, just wanna share picts that shot with infrared camera.. hope you all enjoy it..

this one was shot at my daughter school complex and only edited with auto tone and auto contrast..

[Dons]

another infrared picture.. still at my daughter school complex..
the 1st one was edited with auto tone and auto contrast..
the 2nd one was edited with auto tone, auto contrast and channel mixer..

[arith]

Great shot Steve. I can see a hundred "happy snappers" taking this shot from a similar angle and ending up with some pretty ordinary results but you've really nailed it. Love the border too.

Cheers Dave

Cheers Dave; I had a quick look in google and found thousands but not one with the Shard structure and only one with the sun in frame.

[arith]

10xBRAVO!!!!

That is very great praise indeed.

Somebody said they liked the bird, in another place, and here it has disapeared so while I was thinking how to make the sparkle on the water better, and giving up, I just made the bird a little bigger.

[arith]

From my recent trip to the US... this photo was taken at Watkins Glen State Park in the Finger Lakes district of NY.

I thought places like this only existed in Tolkien books.