Shot on a cloudy day, my first real attempt at tonemapping/HDR, hope everything I did is legal... lots of adjustments in Lightroom, edited in CS3 (mainly cloned out a distracting piece of bridge) and processed in Photomatix. Returned to CS3 and some color adjustments, resize, save for web
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Based on the TN I thought I'd skip it, but I'm glad I didn't! Great graphic effect, works really well. Just a pity you didn't get more/the rest of the stern on there as well (or didn't it work out?). Anyway, your effort was well invested!
The HDR makes this look like a colored-pencil drawing. It's interesting. Dark corner in upper left is a bit distracting, but rest of texture & detail is nice.
This is the most interesting looking ship in the challenge. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't do it justice. Congrats on finding such a great subject though. :)
this appears to be an hdr/tone map. The problem with tone mapping is that sometimes it does not get in between little lines. The triangles in created from the mass lines is lighter than the clouds outside of the triangles.
another of my favorite methods where you take a photo and create a scene that could be a canvass painting. Love that! If any time pm me a quick description of the process. Nice work/8
Great composition and subject. That said, I hate your pp. Why did you overprocess this beautiful image? This is an example of the evils of photoshop. Sorry to be so gruff! But, I see a potentially great photo here! I'm so disappointed you've caused such haloes around the masts with dodge/burn and destroyed the shadow/highlight interplay in the ship. The sky looks like end-of-days. There are horrid, black/dark gray vignettes in the upper left and top. This is not an image anyone would every see with one's eyes. You've jumped over the edge of image manipulation. I certainly hope you'll accept these heartfelt comments as constructive criticism.
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