I decided to go for monochrome this week. This was a tricky shot because of the light sky and dark shaded cannon, so for this one I’ve created an HDR from 3 shots at different exposures using Photomatix Pro’s standard monochrome preset. I then returned to Lightroom to straighten and sharpen slightly.
I am very happy to see the detailed clouds and the variety of textures.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 12 October 2015
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You’ve achieved a lovely balance in this one Debbie and I do like the detail, textures and tones. Very appealing 😃
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The BW gives this a really dramatic feel.
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You really brought out the moodiness of the clouds and the detail of the canon, great edit. 😀
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Thanks Nic. Glad you like it
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it is great how HDR brought out the textures…
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Thank you!
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I haven’t used HDR either. I think the details in the clouds are great – threatening sky to match the threatening canon!
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I know nothing about creating a HDR so all I can say is that it looks great!
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Thank you for such a kind comment.
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Heaven’s above! (literally 🙂 ) You two are far too clever for me.
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Yes, I see what you mean. Maybe I should have worked harder at it to even out the colouring a little
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You got excellent detail in the clouds, nicely done there. I can see a soft glow effect around the chain going into the ring and the wall steps on that side from the HDR process , its not unpleasing but I do notice it 🙂
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