[nitewalk] Beauty of Our (Lion) City

[nitewalk]

#335

Stormy Warmth

This is a 3 vertical frames panorama of 4 exposures for each frame manually blended. The sunset yesterday was pretty good till the storm clouds came in.

 

[nitewalk]

#336

I'm using this post to do a comparison between HDR and manual blending.

Version 1

Version 2

See if you can identify which version is a digitally blended shot and which is a manually blended shot. Of course, this is not a straightforward comparison. Variables include the workflow in Color Efex and the thought flow during processing. Different day and times, there are different priorities in processing the shot. Sometimes, I may wish to reveal the shadow details sometimes I may want to keep something in the shadow. Therefore, this is a just-for-fun post. Ultimately, there are no perfect processing techniques. I'm always seeking to refine it and learn something new to better the processing.​

 

[mabmy]

#336

I'm using this post to do a comparison between HDR and manual blending.

Version 1

Version 2

See if you can identify which version is a digitally blended shot and which is a manually blended shot. Of course, this is not a straightforward comparison. Variables include the workflow in Color Efex and the thought flow during processing. Different day and times, there are different priorities in processing the shot. Sometimes, I may wish to reveal the shadow details sometimes I may want to keep something in the shadow. Therefore, this is a just-for-fun post. Ultimately, there are no perfect processing techniques. I'm always seeking to refine it and learn something new to better the processing.

I'd say #2 is HDR.

 

[PhilipKr35]

#2 Manual blend

 

[polar28]

#2 HDR

 

[andysim65]

i prefer version 2 , it feel more clean and neatly done , where version 1 i can see a slight halo effect on the left side of the main building.

 

[andysim65]

I made a mistake in the colour processing of ver 2. Notice the two tones of blue near the white cloud. I'm ok with very slight halo-ing. Might burn some detail back into the halo-ing part but the two tones of blue is rather ugly imo.

On my iPad don't really notice it , so I am a more HDR guy prefer version 2.

 

[nitewalk]

#337

River Rush

Manually blended 45 exposures in two sets, one set for boat trails (11 exposures) and another set for laser show (34 exposures) with minimal tonal adjustments. The whole processing took 1.5 hours to complete, which is not something common for me.

 

[andysim65]

Pic 337 is beautiful and great works process , i like it a lot

 

[nitewalk]

#338

 

[nitewalk]

#339

 

[nitewalk]

#340

I was in the area for dinner and remembered that Scintillation did a shot of this and went up to do a shot

 

[nitewalk]

#341

Inferno

This was the sunset yesterday and the texture of the cloud made me suspect a good sunset would follow, so I changed location to this spot. Went up the wrong lift column but this is it.

I was at a loss of how to process this and my usual workflow could not handle this and loses the strength of the sunset. HDR killed the tones and the dynamic range was too wide to apply curve adjustments to a single exposure. In the end, I chosed to used manual blending plus some luminosity masking (yes, a crash course while processing).

 

[nitewalk]

#342

 

[macaroni]

#341 is crazy!!! Great shot bing

 

[nitewalk]

#343

Final Destination

This is the sunset yesterday at Upper Seletar Reservoir and the colours really came on slowly. Title this as "Final Destination" as I watched the sunset while looking at the closed jetty, the idea for this shot derived from another fellow shooter (http://www.flickr.com/photos/34161192@N07/5741817251).

 

[nitewalk]

#344

 

[nitewalk]

#345

Shelter

Single exposure without filters. I cant remember the last time i posted something done in a 1:1 square crop and yet ironically the square frame formed the basis of my learning of composition.

Upper Seletar Reservoir. I'm sure many are familiar with this tree. A very popular tree for pre-wedding shoots as well. A beautiful place and a good place to shoot and seek some inner peace. Pretty good experience waiting for your long exposure (which I've not uploaded) and read a book by the reservoir or watch people and dog run pass you.

 

[shiosaki]

nice shots of this place, pity its kinda inaccessible without a car
anyhow, waiting for the next shot

 

[macaroni]

#345

Shelter

Single exposure without filters. I cant remember the last time i posted something done in a 1:1 square crop and yet ironically the square frame formed the basis of my learning of composition.

Upper Seletar Reservoir. I'm sure many are familiar with this tree. A very popular tree for pre-wedding shoots as well. A beautiful place and a good place to shoot and seek some inner peace. Pretty good experience waiting for your long exposure (which I've not uploaded) and read a book by the reservoir or watch people and dog run pass you.

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Lovely lovely shot! ​