Ford Hotrod
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honez
Registered: August 2008
Posts: 705
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Fri December 3, 2010 12:46pm
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Here's the original base shot for the HDR and post work...
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richingr
Registered: October 2010
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Fri December 3, 2010 1:17pm
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Rating: 8.00
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Honez you dissapoint me you have left a small small bit of brown at top right hand side 
Great shot and am impressed at the work you have done on it. Do you ever sell any of your pictures ???
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honez
Registered: August 2008
Posts: 705
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Fri December 3, 2010 1:47pm
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D'oh. I did see that and intended to get rid of it, but forgot.
I sell some here and there. Usually car shots.
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Fri December 3, 2010 5:31pm
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Hi honez you have done a lot of work on your HDR yet the image is looking kinda dull flat, to be honest I prefer the original as it has more punch.
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Kev
Registered: February 2008
Posts: 2,722
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Fri December 3, 2010 5:33pm
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Great shot there - "hot-rod" Honez
I just wish there was a tad more room at the top of the frame to balance it a wee bit better. I know why you cropped it there coz of the upper wall pattern. Other than that...it looks perfecto 
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kdlaz
Registered: February 2010
Posts: 452
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Fri December 3, 2010 8:40pm
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Great shot and good job I think you have spent a lot of time working on it but it's woth
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honez
Registered: August 2008
Posts: 705
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Fri December 3, 2010 8:54pm
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I'd agree the background is duller and flatter than the original. I vignetted, gaussian blurred and didn't high pass filter it, so it's naturally going to tone the image down when viewed as a whole.
I'd be surprised DRD if you think the subject is flat and dull though, as I have specifically boosted vibrance, levelled the high and low values, curves adjusted and high passed a foreground mask to bring it out and give it some pop. It seems to work well enough on my calibrated setup, and I know from prior experience that it'd come out well on photo paper.
Kev, I see what you mean about the tightness of top crop, but I wanted the "eyes" on the thirds sweet spots, but I didn't have enough foreground floorboards to give it the necessary clearance and keep the eyes in the right position.
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Beth
Registered: May 2010
Posts: 1,601
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Fri December 3, 2010 9:22pm
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Rating: 9.00
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You did it again Honez  Very, Very, nice job!!!
Hey, how did you post the other image in your comment?
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Fri December 3, 2010 9:52pm
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Hi honez, maybe its the blacks are grey in the edited version I dont see it as good as your other uploads JMO.
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honez
Registered: August 2008
Posts: 705
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Fri December 3, 2010 10:42pm
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Ah, okay, now I understand DRD. The issue is that the HDR tonemapping has increased the range of what would normally be a fairly narrow "black" range. There are still blacks in the image, but the tyres aren't/weren't truly black in the first place, it's just that the LDR versiono we're used to seeing represents it that way. At the risk of going all Zen on you, if you sit and take a good long stare at a tyre that's got real dark shadow underneath it really is quite a shade lighter. Next time you're washing your car, get some tyre blackener out and paint it on the side of one tyre and not the other and you'll see what I mean.
Anyway on balance I think you're right that they might be too light, so I'll re-introduce some shadow clipping, or unleash the burn tool. Thanks for the comments.
Beth - it's an image link to photobucket, use [img ]http://whatever.link[/img]
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