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From the Lake og Haraldsted. Thanks if comment!

This is very pretty, but I would personally tone down the saturation just a notch. The greens are just a bit too bright to be believable.

 

--Lannie

I like the saturation the way it is. I'm not sure believability is the goal here, rather a mood that is facilitated by the unrealistic saturation. Without this manipulation it would not have the impact. My one negative is the light area behind the tree on the right and the light halo around the tree on the left, they are inconsistent with the rest of the photo. I think you could have easily darkened both of these areas with little or no affect on the trees, they're silhouettes. Nice job.

Very beautiful sunset composition. I have no critic to do.

Beautiful work. The greens are too over the top for a realistic interpretation but I like it. My main issue is with the haloing around the trees.

Peter,

 

The haloing is awful. I certainly believe that you need to rework this shot.

Generally, I like the painterly feel. I don't have a problem with the green either as it strengthens the effect. However, I agree with the comments on the halo effect. Actually, if you look at the tree on the right it isn't even a halo. It looks as if the sky has been generally burned in but not where the trees are. I assume the light between the tree on the right is closer to the original exposure? If you fix the light behind and around the trees, I think it will add to an already good image.

The HDR artifacts really annoys me... HDR is a great technique and it is also very complex. Here, something went wrong: the halo shouldn`t be there.

Those halos are not from HDR. They are from either too large of a mask when layering 2 images or from poor editing with a large brush on lightening the image. Either way it looks pretty bad and unrealistic and should be fixed. Lovely scene if you can fix it.

I have resently received a HDR-software and still just learning how to use it. In this image I have barely used PS so I think it must be some of the values/settings used in the HDR-software I have to adjust to avoid the halo.

Thanks for all your comments, I have noted them.

 

Regards Peter

HDR is great for capturing the foreground in these types of shots but the haloing around trees is very difficult to deal with. I have given up using HDR in these types of shots because I have not found a solution that does not involve a lot of tedious repair. Funny though, for all the complaints about the haloing and all the complaints people give about HDR in general, your scores look quite good...

Hi Peter,

Assuming you're using Photomatix, the best way to deal with these arfifacts is to pay attention to Strength, Luminosity and especially Smoothing. The lower the Smoothing level the more halo you're gonna get (Lower gives images that painting quality). The lower the Luminosity the more 'realistic' your photo will appear. Strength is obvious, don't max it out.

 

It's a very nice photo, just needs the proper tweaks from HDR software.

Thank You very much for your kind explanation. I will keep those suggestion in mind and yes, I am using Photomatix.

 

Peter

It's an OK shot, but don't let the the numbers go to your head. Like others have said, it's the inconsistent processed lighting that deflates the image. The saturation seems fine to me.