HDR LONG BEACH NY BOARDWALK 3-01-08

I just started taking HDR photo's Please let me know your thoughts.

Well, you overdone it...doesn't looks natural. If you are using Photomatix or something like that play a bit with strength, saturation and luminosity. This one is too shiny and looks a bit like crayon drawing....remember that reasonable output is a just a beginning of whole story. Post process it! You will be amazed. Even from ordinary pictures you can get something nice if you are patient enough. Avoid noise, play a bit with color softness and saturation. Play with brightness and contrast in different parts of your picture as well. Do not oversaturate your pictures...HDR is to improve your photo, not to make it unreal :). I did the same mistakes before, so take it easy. Greets/

The first one is much,much,much better!

Ines

EXCELLENT......the other people commenting on your photo obviously do not know what HDR is about and this is it.....other then the corners it;s perfect.....HDR is not supposed to look real....it can, but I like when it looks like a painting or cartoonish.....excellent work

I agree, it looks realy nice, doesn't need to look real, beautiful is enough

I think this is fine as a "digital alteration", assuming that was your intention. If this was intended to look natural, then I agree with the other commentors. I believe the vignetting is a distraction though. I would crop or clone it out. Best regards, -Clayton

I showed this to a few colleagues at work and all of them refused to believe it was a photograph, insisting it had to be a painting. Absolutely stunning, I have never seen anything like it. There are far too many images around today that try to be artistic or replicate nature, this is pure and simple love of one's own art. It is art. It is beautiful!

I Love this! Its nice work

Of course it's not 'natural.' Recording reality is the point of crime scene photography and not much else.

 

This is great. It transforms a fairly mundane reality into something amazing, and beautiful.

Yes, it doesn't look real. But who cares? Beautiful composition, amazing colour. Looks like something Normal Rockwell would have painted if he did shore paintings. HDR can be made to look realistic (usually) or it can be made to look beyond realistic. Either way, if done well, the results are incredible, like this picture. I agree, though, that those dark corners need to be edited out one way or another. Otherwise, incredible work! Outstanding job!!!

I love this image. Been shooting empty benches for a long time. I do not know any thing about HDR, but would love to learn. I love the feel you have created here. Relaxed, and a bit surreal

Sara

No it doesn't look real, but that's part of what makes it so interesting. Very nice pic.

It is interesting because it does not look real.Otherwise it would be rather boring.Bravo.