Whohooo, I did it! Now I have the highest rated D50 photo. I also have 7.57. I hope it will stay on the top for a while.
I've allways hated HDR. I think it's ugly. I don't like how grey HDR pictures are. But it's great to get a nice score for a HDR photo.
I used took 6 different exposures and combined them in Photomatrix. Then I processed it in Photoshop. I tried to bright up the car and the ship and darken the ground. I also muted the color because I didn't like the HDRish colors I got.
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Place: 3 out of 84 Avg (all users): 7.5772 Avg (commenters): 8.4694 Avg (participants): 7.2619 Avg (non-participants): 7.6289 Views since voting: 15617 Views during voting: 927 Votes: 298 Comments: 81 Favorites: 36 (view)
I am just amazed by what a great photographer you are! You are only 16 years old and already so damn good! You have a gift for this. I am 41 and will never be as good as you are now. Keep it up. You will be a famous photographer someday.
Lovely image, you should be proud of it. I had it for 2nd place as I knew the Cathedral photo would rule this competition. Well done, and doubly well done for the D50 rating, thats gonna take some beating.
Ooops, he did it again! Haha, now you are going to have to have this HDR monstrosity in your top profile FOREVER :) At least as far as I am concerned, as I view the top 8 on profiles, hehe, you are going to need eight 7.58+ scores to erase this! I think you can do it but will probably take till 2010 to get there.
Anyway, congrats kiddo and especially on the new top score of the Nikon D50, I knew you really wanted that one :)
Congrats Magnús for the excellent photo, for the highest rated D50 photo and of course for the yellow ribbon. Young photographer of the year, for sure!
Congrats Magnus! You finally have that top D50 spot, I knew it would only be a matter of time and this is a great shot and the HDR processing really compliments the image. Hats off to you, well done.
I love the look you acheived on the ship and truck... it has a wonderful feel to it. Unfortunately, the sky takes up too much of the image and is flat and uninteresting. 7
A good subject for your treatment. Way too much evidence of editing though with the halos though - won't put off most of the DPC voters though as they love this kind of thing. Some nice touches however, and with more time you could make this special.
Voted on this last night and came back to comment now. I think I love this more for the subject matter, perspective and muted colour, than the somewhat overly applied HDR which imo, renders it digital art in this instance. Having said that though, I gave it a 10 and now even with a second look over, cannot find justification for changing my vote. So I won't - a 10 it remains :)
Use of Light:1
Focus:2
Composition:1
Creativity:1
Achieves Challenge:2
This photo has a feel as if it is a painting. I love the old truck and boat. Your use of HDR brings out the dark areas of the wet ground while allowing the brighter sections to stay in control.
The HDR rendered a lot less realistic looking photo in this case, but I do like the results. This interesting and fairly dynamic composition combined with the processing give this very good art appeal. Nicely done!
Very pretty. I can see this hanging on a wall somewhere - perhaps a tiny bit of touchup needed here and there, but this is one of the best of the challenge so far. 10
this is great.
the HDR colors have worked very well.
my only dislike is that the sky is a little "boring".
but you did only have 24 hours, so i guess you couldn't be too choosy.
well done, this should do well.
This is an appealling image and I'm predicting that the wide angle combined with the aged subject and balanced HDR effect will bring you success and a place in the front page.. God luck.
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