This was my first attempt HDR and I downloaded a free version. Please do not ask me what I did, cause I do not know.The scene is towards Fouriesburg in the Eastern Free State and I often go there to take shots. A beautiful area and photographers paradise. Thanks to all for the comments. That is the only reason why I entered it.
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The foreground looks really dark and with a bad sharpness. The quality of the image is kind of poor in my monitor, the colors seems to be a little washed and i don't see many details on the foreground too. Though, i think you did a nice job with the perspective, because the lake is really well positioned and the DOF is really nice in my opinion, i really like the details on that mountain at the back. There are some black spots at the sky too, hopelly not from your lens. The border is nice too.
I'm not experient but i would try a really overexposed and a really underexposed shots to combine, i think that way you would have nice quality at the shadows (lake) and at the brighter parts.
I am seeing some serious artifacting and pixellation in the image and I don't know what is causing it. Your 193k file size does not suggest JPEG compression as the cause. Perhaps it was the processing, or resizing. I have also seen cases where an image was saved and opened as a JPEG a number of times during the course of working on it, and lost some clarity upon each save/open cycle. I'm afraid I have to give this a 4, as something that shows some genuine effort and knowledge, but also has some major problems.
This looks very pixelated or something. I can't quite tell what the issue is. My guesses: You used a canvas or crosshatch filter on it, bad quality photo to begin with, over sharpened, or the method in which you saved it to the web compressed it badly. Either way, the photo would look much better without whatever you've done to it. It seems like a very nice location, but would be better if it looked more natural.
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