This was a tough situation because of a blowing wind causing the foreground plants to move and blur during the multiple images I normally use for HDR. So this is made from one neutral exposed raw image which was then outputed as multiple 16bit tiff files at different exposures. The only thing that I could not really resolve very well from that was the sky. So I used another image taken from the raw series of exposures that was an underexposed one and made an additional 3 tiffs. I then created the HDR from that in photomatix. I then used a bit of topaz adjust to help boost the contrast. When I opened the resulting image in PS I did not like the effect of the hdr on all the goldenrod and other plants in the foreground because it made them look too crunchy. So I agained opened up the neutral exposed image in PS and put it in a layer above the HDR layer and used a layer mask to blend the two. I used mostly the non HDR plantlife with and HDR phone booths and sky, although I toned down the sky by letting some of the non HDR version take effect.
Overall I am pretty happy with it because it is a bit unique because it mixes HDR with non HDR in some areas. I debated as to how much HDR effect I wanted to use since I am normally not a fan of the overcooked skys etc. In the end I left it as pretty heavy HDR because I think that is what people will be looking for in this challenge.
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*sigh* bl...dy stupid idea to have lost those phone boxes from our tourist towns. Nicely done shot. Be interesting to see what would happen if the greenes of the foliage was reduced.
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