Shed, Point Reyes Station

This is an attempt at capturing an image using hdr. This is three images blended and

coverted to bw using bw layers in cs3. Comments appreciated, Ron

WOW!, this has to be one of the best B&W renderings I've ever seen on this site, beautiful range of tones throughout, I am truly jealous that you shot this and not me LOL, would love to hear how you processed this. Congrats, I don't usually give out ratings anymore, but for this.....7/7!

As I wrote this started as an hdr blend of 3 images. I used photomatix Pro software. I have had better luck with this software than the standard issue in photoshop. I am a novice to say the least so I tend to get a little confused with all the options in the program. I converted the image to bw using bw layers in photoshop cs3. In the pull down menu I used green filter and just tweaked it till it looked good to me. I then sharpened locally using a sharpening brush by nik software. Now I'm confused and I did it. Hope this answers some questions. Ron

Simply wanted to second the above comments - all the necessary requisites are here; excellent tones, clarity, detail, depth of field, etc? an image worthy of all praise and credit. A sincere 'Well Done'.

Nice treatment, Ron! The drama of the sky knocks this up to the next level.

Well you should make note of that process, because it worked brilliantly, amazing!

Absolutely Beautiful!

This is a big-time 'genius' shot; and superb post-processing. I really like the tonal range you've achieved; and I surmise it is because of the expansion you got with the multiple exposures. Maybe there's more to HDR than I thought. You know what a crazed guy I am for mono; and man-o-man this is one sweet image! Terrific work, Capasso! Now, can you do it again? LOL! Cheers! Chris

dramatic! excellent point of view. congrats.

Ronald, thanks for your comment that brought me here...I have friends at Point Reyes Station, and I was there some years ago.It is a beautiful conversion to B/W, and very well composed with many nuances. I like the way the diagonal fence has a diagonal " answer" in the sky.

 

Many beautiful works in your portfolio!