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Would someone pleeaaassssee talk to me!

I like your picture. I also like the fisheye idea. I do however think it would work better on a different picture. Crater Lake is a beautiful place but I don't think fisheye works with this one. I have seen your other photos and I do think you do a wonderful job. I hope you don't find this critique to critical.

Nick,

I think that the fisheye effect on this is very unique; you don't see many fisheye landscapes. This contributes to giving the viewer a sweeping sensation which I like. I think it works very well.

 

The post processing on the other hand I'm not crazy about. I may be wrong, but it looks to me as if a lot of detail was lost in the lower part of the picture by matching its levels to those of the sky. Is that the case?

If so, I think that a second exposure could have been used to balance the lighting between the sky and the foreground without losing any detail. An NG filter would have been useless in this case because of the round horizon line, and there is just too much dynamic range to capture the entire scene using one exposure.

 

On the other hand, if this is an HDR image to begin with, then I think the foreground levels need to be mapped differently. They just look a little unnatural to me.

 

Overall, It's still a very good picture.

Mark, This isn't HDR, but I really want to experiment with it. I don't remember exactly what I did with this photo but it was my first time playing with a raw image in photoshop. I played with selective sharpening and levels adjustment...but did some other stuff as well, and kinda got carried away.

You sound like you really know what you're talking about... if you know any good tutorials on HDR.. or any other quality photoshop tutorials I'd like to check them out.

Thanks again for both of your comments!

I visited Crater Lake for the first time this spring, and I did not expect it to be so B___I___G, so I kind of like what you did here. Even with a fisheye lense, you were barely able to fit the entire panorama of the lake into the frame. Cheers.

Hey Nick, glad I can help.

I've only done a little experimentation with HDR myself, so I don't know all that much about it. I find that in these cases (like in your image) you can simply take 2 exposures copy them as separate layers in photoshop and then either use a mask or the paintbrush tool to combine areas of both exposures selectively. I find this technique to give you better control then what the "Merge to HDR" photoshop function gives you. I guess it really depends on the original picture, and what you want your end result to be.

 

There are some good tutorials on Lumious-Lanscape.com as well as cambridgeincolour.com. That's what I looked at. There was one really good article that I found (I forget the link) that was a step by step tutorial comparing Photoshop vs. Photomatix. Check them out. The first 90% of the process is pretty much automatic. The other 10% is manual and can be as simple or as complex as you want, but it usually makes the difference between an OK looking HDR and a really good one.

Just bear in mind that all this comes at the cost of losing sharpness in the final image, so it's a tool you may not want to use all the time.Good luck,

Mark.

Excelente imagen de gran belleza, perfecta luz, color y una magnifica composicion. Saludos cordiales Nick.

Whoops, this photo makes me feel dizzy. Hope I don't fall... Othervise great image, but foreground really looks tad too bright to be natural. Really like this. No ratings. a s l a