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Spencer Dock HDR C & C

  • 22-04-2009 5:07pm
    #1
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,508 ✭✭✭✭


    Went down to the south quays on two consecutive Sundays in March & caught the Spencer Dock cylinder before they installed the staircase, did some HDR with my D90 (-2/0/+2 exposure bracketing on aperture priority) and a little PP with CS3. Haven't forked out yet for the Photomatix licence as you can see from the watermarks.

    Comments welcome.

    BCB96FB44A074953AC027611A1FA25B6-800.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    Slidinginfinity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Slidinginfinity


    Personally I would like to see it straightened (slight rotation clockwise).


  • #3
    daycent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭daycent


    I think it needs a rotation too but it's a nice subtle HDR. Very good for a first try.


  • #4
    Nisio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Nisio


    I think the crane going out of the picture at the top right is a bit distracting, might have gone for a different composition to put it in or take it out


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,508 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Nisio wrote: »
    I think the crane going out of the picture at the top right is a bit distracting, might have gone for a different composition to put it in or take it out
    Agreed, cranes are a challenge in this type of shoot, my priority was to get the main building with the cylinder without the party boat which is moored to the right but I also wanted to take in all of the the Commerzbank building on the left, that essentially dictated the frame so the crane was in.


  • #6
    Borderfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    More contrast in curves will bring it back from looking too much like a HDR


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  • #7
    Orly
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Orly


    As mentioned already, I think the composition could be made a lot nicer - straightened up mostly. As for the HDR aspect - I'm not sure a shot like this works or needs such heavy processing.

    An exposure for the sky and one for the for the building would probably do the trick, combined in Photoshop and tweaked in Camera Raw, you would have a far more interesting shot which wouldn't look so obviosuly dragged through Photomatix, like so much of what we see online these days.


  • #8
    broad_sword
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭broad_sword


    Nice shot. It could be my monitor, but the shot looks a little on the blue side. Did you shoot raw? If you did, I'd maybe go back over each bracketed shot and set the white balance to 'daylight', then tone map again in Photomatix. It might take some of that blue cast out of the shot. Well done though... must head down there myself with the camera soon ;)


  • #9
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,508 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    broad_sword wrote: »
    Nice shot. It could be my monitor, but the shot looks a little on the blue side. Did you shoot raw? If you did, I'd maybe go back over each bracketed shot and set the white balance to 'daylight', then tone map again in Photomatix. It might take some of that blue cast out of the shot. Well done though... must head down there myself with the camera soon ;)

    Yes, since you ask I did shoot RAW but on the 2nd Sunday. Doesn't the issue of white balance go moot when you shoot RAW i.e. it doesn't matter whether you used sRGB or Adobe RGB when you shoot RAW?


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