JimH wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:02:09 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

The link below is a photo I took of a Sunset in Atlanta.

I am interested in any feedback.

Harry, since you really know photography I would like to hear your
feedback too.

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/276...92789669UfrTAB
I know what you tried to do, but frankly, it's not very good.

To start with, it's way over sharpened. Viewed in it's original size,
you can see where the over sharpening detracts from the intended
effect. Looking at the hotel windows on the left and right, you can
see where it's over pixalated and the bleed through ruins the effect.
On the right where the squared towers, you see ghost pixels which is
also indicative of over sharpening. You can also see this bleed
through in the two curves arches - in fact, the one on the left goes
from white through green. There is also an exposure problem in which
the wrong areas were highlighted.

What I might have done in this instance was to take double the
exposures, maybe even triple the exposures to obtain the necessary
dynamic range for processing focusing on the different light zones -
longer for the bottom third, a tad shorter for the middle zone and
shorter for the top zone.

This is largely a shutter speed photo as compared to an aperture size
photo - meaning that the shutter/aperture is more important than the
aperture/shutter relationship.

So, to put it down in one sentence, three zones, three exposures times
three, color correct slightly to compensate for the different light
levels, noise process (Noise Ninja is the way to go), then HDR
combining the best of the exposures.

It would be a much better image that way.
Thanks, I will give it a try.

Or buy a set of oil paints and paint nature the way you think it should
look.

Why can't it be done by tweaking a photograph? Aren't the end results the
same?


It's a matter of taste, I suppose. If I want impressionism, I go to an
art gallery and look at paintings.