Dear all,
Better late than never, my HDR entry. It is the first HDR I ever made, so there is lots to comment on. I see now I have a halo of light around the vegetation, so I think I should have made my selection slightly different. Please give me your comments and let me know where and how I can improve.
2 comments:
Nick
You've picked a pretty tough image to HDR manually, hence your halos (can sort it out though). The subject matter is great and is exactly what a lodge would look for.
as to the halos...you can try select fro teh sky by using the colour range selection tool which makes a much more accurate selection. The lasso tool (I'm guessing you used that) has resulted in the mask assuming that the edge of the frame is also it's border - hence the halo around the frame edges themselves. The problem with the colour range tool is that you run the risk of ghosting (there's already a small amount of this in the top left of the frame) where images don't match exactly. You can also try a luminosity mask, although in my opinion they come out a little too much like an HDR (I tend to try and avoid the artificial HDR look). Experiment by creating a selection based on the RGB channel (ctrl + left click on the RGB channel and then hit create mask on the layers palette). This creates a mask of the luminance values above 50% grey on that layer. Invert that for a mask of the luminance values below 50% grey.
Excellent comp and good initial work on the HDR. I think if you clean up the halo's and maybe lighten the sky a tad it will be a stunner!
E
yikes...excuse the typos...I wrote that really fast and my fingers are dyslexic.
E
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