Used Photomatix to combine three exposures. This only the 3rd or 4th time I've created an HDR photo but it's something I'm really interested in.
In the hi res version the barn looks really good but once I sized it for DPC I lost a lot of detail in the barn. I tried a couple of different crops to show off the texture in the barn but settled on this one as it was my favorite.
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Thanks to everyone for the comments and votes!
drueov: I'm not sure what you mean by manually. If you PM me I will be glad to give you all of the steps I did in detail.
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I like the scene. The old wood of the barn has a nice texture to it.
The only thing I don't like is the distracting halo in the sky above the trees and above the barn roof. There's kind of a bright glow in the sky that looks artificial.
foreground is good I think the sky needs more color and try not to split horizon down the center you would have been better using more grass in the foreground.
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Composition:1
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Nice attemplt on this. The clouds seem too gray - too bad you didn't have more than one day to find a better sky! I think the color of the roof is a little too vibrant.
I scored this a 7. THis is a well thought out photo with good composition and processing. The colors are very nice, I might have bumped the green up just a touch more to go with the saturated reds. One thing that bothers me and maybe couldnt have been avoided is the birds in the background. I wish they werent there to clutter up the sky. Thats a personal thing for me though. Good luck in the challenge.
Interesting shot. The line between the skyline and the trees is pretty harsh, though I expect that it would be a tricky line to blend, maybe some low-opacity erasing if this is two or more layers?
the barn looks very interesting with some nice textures going on, but i wish the image was a little bigger or the barn filled more of the frame so that more focus was on the textures.
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