This is photo of sunrise this morning taken out on Deep Creek Road near Manhattan. I had only a short burst of color before the clouds and rain moved in. This is a 4 shot HDR.
A few more shots from this morning are on my blog at:
A feast of colors. Detail seems a bit soft, but that is likely due to the reduction in size. Nice shot.
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on July 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Ditto Daniel's comment ... there is a feast of color in this shot Scott. The low perspective and foreground elements are nice, a little sharpening would make them even more so. Nice Kansas sunrise Scott.
I didn't do a very good job of downsizing (I need to find a better way to do that!), the entire foreground lost detail when I downsized, at first I thought I had messed up the shot it looked so bad, but I just couldn't get a good downsized file that would retain detail, even with sharpening thrown in. What is everyone using to down sample?
Those first three shots in the collection standout the most to me. I'm sure these look very nice in a larger file. The saturation might be a bit too much for my tastes, though (but maybe that is just due to the file compression).
Scott, a very nice composition but I agree with Wayne if you could sharpen the foreground it would help. By the way, what HDR software are you using?
Posted by Barry Southon on July 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Scott
A great composition, I'm convinced that colour and sharpness are lost in compression. Also I see a substantial difference between my laptop and PC display resolution being the predominent factor my point being that its not always the photograph.
Tom: I'm used Photomatix for this HDR (which just released an update today). I also really like Timothy Armes Enfuse plugin for Lightroom to blend exposures.
Barry: I've become a convert of the late Bruce Frazier when it comes to sharpening...one of the things he mentioned the photography world needed was the ability to "calibrate sharpness" for monitors just like we do color. It would be nice to have something like that!
Scott, for web sharpening I usually use some variation of Marc Adamus' technique found here. I made a couple of actions for different amounts of sharpening. It works great for me.
Scott, for web sharpening I usually use some variation of Marc Adamus' technique found here. I made a couple of actions for different amounts of sharpening. It works great for me.
Scott, Charlie VanTassel posted this link http://actions.home.att.net/dSLR_Fractal_Sharpen.html in the avian photography discussion forum recently. He uses Genuine Fractals and these actions for his sharpening. The link looks interesting, but I don't have the software yet.
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15 repliesA few more shots from this morning are on my blog at:
http://www.scottbeanphoto.com/2009/07/sunrise-this-morning.html
I didn't do a very good job of downsizing (I need to find a better way to do that!), the entire foreground lost detail when I downsized, at first I thought I had messed up the shot it looked so bad, but I just couldn't get a good downsized file that would retain detail, even with sharpening thrown in. What is everyone using to down sample?
A great composition, I'm convinced that colour and sharpness are lost in compression. Also I see a substantial difference between my laptop and PC display resolution being the predominent factor my point being that its not always the photograph.
Barry: I've become a convert of the late Bruce Frazier when it comes to sharpening...one of the things he mentioned the photography world needed was the ability to "calibrate sharpness" for monitors just like we do color. It would be nice to have something like that!
here. I made a couple of actions for different amounts of sharpening. It works great for me.
here. I made a couple of actions for different amounts of sharpening. It works great for me.