• 08-09-2007, 01:50 AM
    Mr Yuck
    Double Barrelled Telescope
    Also known as a pair of binoculars I suppose.
    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1366/...52be6e6dbe.jpg
    Flickr Page

    C&C welcome. I know the subject itself is a bit blurry if you look closely, but other than that, what do you think?
  • 08-09-2007, 08:58 AM
    Speed
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Mr Yuck
    Also known as a pair of binoculars I suppose. C&C welcome. I know the subject itself is a bit blurry if you look closely, but other than that, what do you think?

    I think it is very interesting, but it looks overprocessed. What did you do to this?

    Composition looks good, and it's got a moody feel to it (though it's a little dark for my taste).

    My two cents worth.
  • 08-09-2007, 09:41 AM
    Greg McCary
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    How do you get the cartoon looking colors? When I do an HDR they come out more traditinal looking.....
  • 08-09-2007, 10:40 AM
    freygr
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    The colors are something. I trust that you did a lot of post processing on the photo. Saying that I don't like it, but I can't tell you why. It just maybe to drake and moody for me. It reminds me of "DOOM"
  • 08-09-2007, 02:01 PM
    Don Schaeffer
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    Very interesting picture. I wouldn't use this technique for everything but here it works really well.
  • 08-09-2007, 02:06 PM
    Mr Yuck
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    I really didn't do a whole lot of processing to this one, I used a huge range of exposure values to get the result and ran it through Photomatix, by severely underexposing at the low end, I brought out the moody clouds that weren't really there, and the selective color feel was just by selectively saturating at the shadows and highlights in Photomatix 2.5.1, which served to make the colors quite unrealistic.

    If you haven't figured it out, I really like to exaggerate some images.
  • 08-10-2007, 01:04 PM
    fx101
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    I think the technique works well for this image, but for some reason it has a CG feel to it... it lacks reality. By sharpening the clouds somewhat I think you could achieve a balance.
  • 08-10-2007, 02:58 PM
    afdlips
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    I like it. Nice HDR.
  • 08-10-2007, 03:38 PM
    MrEastSide
    Re: Double Barrelled Telescope
    That looks very cool. Nice job!