Taken about 25klm from home, the Bilbee Creek Is tidal controlled and a great place for a fish. The shadows were across the sandbar when I arrived and the tide running out, the grass area is the front of a large homestead set back on a raised area.
Camera set AEB files tone adjusted and cropped in light room, and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. 2 files 1 compressed, one enhanced..
In photoshop blended the 2 files at 50% opacity with enhanced layer on top
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Thanks for all the comments, and the oversaturation, this looked good to me, unfortuatlly the morphine pain management I am on must be letting me see things the way I want to and not how they are, I Liked the subject just the colors got confused :):):)
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I really like what the tone mapping has done for the trees and the rocks. The water and the sky didn't fair quite so well. They look very unnatural. The scene is beautiful. I love the light and composition.
I like this, even though it reminds me of a Hawaiian shirt print. The oversaturation and oversharpend treatment gives it a 50's feel. I think it suits the image, but others might find it too overprocessed.
The colours have been pushed too far for my liking - so my knee jerk reaction was dislike, but the longer I look at it the more it grows on me. I can't put my finger on it...it looks so 'colour by numbers' but it works as a piece, moreso than most of the other more digital art that occasionally pops up. I'd have this on my wall, and that's my acid test to see if I really like an image.
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