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Nine Greens at the 9th Green
Nine Greens at the 9th Green
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Challenge: HDR III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, Caifornia, USA
Date: Jun 5, 2010
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: Auto/100
Shutter: 1/251
Galleries: Landscape, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Jun 6, 2010

 Shot from the cart/pedestrian path overlooking the ninth green at the Tilden Regional Park Golf Course. I'm red-green colorblind, but even I can find (at least) nine shades of green in this picture. :-)

Merged from three exposures ranging from 1/101 to 1/636 second (base exposure 1/251 sec), plus two copies of the lightened exposure further modified with Curves, using EnfuseGUI.

-Tripod, timer
-Aperture mode, Auto-Exposure Bracketing mode
-Exposure Compensation -1 stop
-WB = Sunny
-Merge images with EnfuseGUI
-Clone out a little ghosting caused by motion blur of leaves in the middle, and stray branch at the top
-Some local Dodge/Burn to darkest foliage and calla flowers
-Clone in color mode on flowers
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Create artially-transparent mask over calla leaves
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves to calla leaves through mask
-Create translucent semi-radial gradient mask for sky and trees near ridgeline
-RGB Curve to sky area through mask to correct "reverse vignette" effect
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied three times)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 299KB

File: Grn9_IMG_0943-45HDRv4DPC7.jpg 
Resized originals:

        

Grayscale version:


[Jun. 7th, 2010 02:44:16 PM]

Screenshot of EnfuseGUI settings used to merge originals:
[thumb]889379[/thumb]

[Jun. 7th, 2010 03:08:34 PM]

Screenshots of tone curves used to generate the two lightened versions; the effect of the second curve is added to that of the first:
[thumb]889383[/thumb] [thumb]889384[/thumb]

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Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 06/14/2010 01:40:56 PM
I think it looks good, especially considering the equipment..

I do think you might have over saturated a bit, and I think the midtones are just a bit too bright..

HDR to me is more about the shadows and highlights than it is the midtones,, and your image seems to draw me consistently to the midtones. I think that was most of the problem...

But be clear... This was WAYY better than a 4.57... you just didn't get lucky with any fluffy white clouds, and your foliage is scary bright green.. :)
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/09/2010 05:33:18 PM
good
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Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED VR
 06/07/2010 05:26:23 PM
this is too bright; as if it were taken in the middle of the day
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