A Bridge into the Fall Season

Comments and critiques welcomed.

This photograph is very well exposed and the perspective is very amazing and so the composition

 

All of the best my friend

Wonderful! I found it at #1 on TRP(no nudes). Composition is awesome.

Great composition ... eye catching colours.

Fantastic image

Very nice. Is this HDR?

 

Yinka

Thanks all for your comments. Yinka, this is not HDR. It's actualy a manually blend of 3 exposures. I'm not really a big fan of HDR. MOst HDR attempts look washed out and a bit cartoonish.

When you say "blend", what do you mean? I'd love to hear about it ... you've posted such wonderful shots lately ... anything I could learn from you would be so appreciated! :-)

 

This image has a sort of a lean to it that I really like. The sky is great and the exposure works. Wonderful!

Thanks Lou Ann. What I did in this shot was take two exposures at the same aperture. I metered for the sky and metered for the foreground and took the proper exposure for each. Of course I used the tripod and a cable release to keep it sharp. I then blended the exposures in Photoshop using layer masks, thus creating one image with high dynamic range without the HDR washed out look.

.......... I have so much to learn............

Okay - so here's a challenge for you, if you have a few minutes, Will. I just posted an image from the Mississippi swamps. It uses two different images taken at two different exposures. I've never done that before (using two images to make one). I'm not sure if that's what you're talking about on this image here ... "blending" ... but if you have time, would you mind looking at this image and give me any suggestions that you might have for me..... Thanks!!

I agree, manually blending of multiple exposures using photo shop layers and mask always give you better result although it uses the same concept as HDR ( reveal best exposed part of the image from each of them) than making an HDR image using

any other software automatically.it simply gives you more control.

You have a very nice portfolio. Most of your pictures are excellent. Somtimes I only rate some new fotos without a comment. But you are right. I will comment fotos in future when I rate them low.

--- Back to this foto. It really does not impress me very much. Of course the perspective is ok. But a massive wooden bridge in foreground is not my criterion for a perfect composition. The reason why I rated 4/3 was the impression that it looks like as a normal flat vacation foto.---

But 4/3 was a little bit hard (or as you say - rude). I will correct this to 6/4.---

I tried it in B/W which makes it very powerful.

Regards

Henry