brian xavier

Thanks, @redmustang. You mentioned the absence of the “heavy-handedness” of HDR processing in this picture. In general I think that when folks talk about a bad HDR image, they are speaking about the unreal and contrasty edges in the details of the image. In this pic the colors contrast rather strongly, but within each color band there is not much…[Read more]

@caimi, great idea. hmm. let’s see, where did I put that Hallmark number??? 🙂 Following up on the generic look, what is it that makes it look that way? Is it the generally solid colors in each of the color bands? Maybe the rather dark foreground that makes it indistinct; i.e., if there were something to get our attention in the foreground maybe…[Read more]

Thanks, @thombeecroft. The yellow has always seemed overly rich to me as well and at the time I did this pic a year ago I was a Lightfoot novice and didn’t know how to desaturate a single color. The general trend I see in responses to HDR is that if it looks like HDR, it isn’t good. This is because the HDR technique allows the editor to exaggerate…[Read more]