[PIC_THREAD] Landscapes, Architecture, Seascapes

Ishmay, your photos make me home sick :)

Sydney skyline from my old apartment on the north shore.

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I'd love to know how you processed that. I always seem to have trouble getting high contrast scenes to have that detail in the foreground without flattening the contrast too much. Yours has such rich colours. I want that!

Sorry missed your comment there! These were 3 shot HDR's, handheld at 2 stop intervals. Then into Light-Room for cropping and alinging all three shots export to Photomatix Pro for merging and tweaking the merge, back to LR for small tweaks (contrast, sharpening) export to HDD for Prints/Facebook/Flickr. So no they are not straight from camera, but they have not got much if any colour tweaks, the colours are caught in the three shots at different exposures.

I am not a fan of the usual over processed HDR shots, I like to make them as natural as possible :)
 
Would look great if you cropped out over 1/2 the sky as there isn't much going on in it.

Yeah there isn't much there other than a few tiny seaguls you can't see all that well but I kinda like the massive open space with all that lovely orange in it lol. Might give it a crop to see what it looks like without some of the sky!


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Went and did it now just to see :P I feel like I'm missing out on all that lovely colour but cropping in does mean you get to see some more detail of the little dudes on the beach and the pier in the distance etc so it definitely works :)


Sunder Afternoon 2 by Phal44, on Flickr
 
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