Hello,

Offices by the Marina Hull, East Yorkshire

All the best Alan

Alan,
First off, this is magnificently captured. I love the quietness of the streets and the lack of energy brought forth by people. The buildings and sky have their own energy and there seems to be plenty of it.

Second, you seem to be the leading voice in HDR photography here. (No offense to anyone else, but it appears that this guy has HDR down, literally, to a science). Is there a good starting point for me to explore HDR? Maybe a tutorial of sorts that I can learn from? Every time I try to do HDR, I end up with this Solarized effect on my image. I'm just wondering what I might be doing wrong. I realize you're probably busy, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Matthew

Wow, brilliant. I'm assuming the tilt is intentional?

I love this. It's like a neutron bomb came and went, and all that's left are the buildings, unchanged. Wonderful capture and conversion.

matthewm wrote:
Alan,
First off, this is magnificently captured. I love the quietness of the streets and the lack of energy brought forth by people. The buildings and sky have their own energy and there seems to be plenty of it.

Second, you seem to be the leading voice in HDR photography here. (No offense to anyone else, but it appears that this guy has HDR down, literally, to a science). Is there a good starting point for me to explore HDR? Maybe a tutorial of sorts that I can learn from? Every time I try to do HDR, I end up with this Solarized effect on my image. I'm just wondering what I might be doing wrong. I realize you're probably busy, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Matthew


Thank You Matthew, for such kind comments, HDR is very frustrating. Always remember less is more? I am by no means an expert, and make mistakes pretty much all the time, but you must continue to experiment and discover . I don't have any secrets regarding my processing and I have documented all my work flows on my web site. www.yungaphotography.com. Let me know how you get on, if you get stuck send me a PM

All the best Alan

Edited by Alan Young on Aug 04, 2008 at 08:51 PM GMT

Seth Tower wrote:
Wow, brilliant. I'm assuming the tilt is intentional?

Thanks Seth,

Tilt what tilt , my 17-40 has that effect and I am stood at the bottom of an incline.

All the best Alan

fotographiq wrote:
I love this. It's like a neutron bomb came and went, and all that's left are the buildings, unchanged. Wonderful capture and conversion.

Was here fairly early to avoid people, only saw the security guard who tipped his hat and said morning

Alan, thanks for the link to your site. Will be trying your techniques soon.

Pretty much as Matthew says , you are the daddy of this look Alan , also , you always manage to pick the right images for this type of look . Your pictures are impressive Alan , to say the least

fotographiq wrote:
Alan, thanks for the link to your site. Will be trying your techniques soon.

Thanks if you get stuck drop me a PM I'll try to help

All the best Alan

mooch wrote:
Pretty much as Matthew says , you are the daddy of this look Alan , also , you always manage to pick the right images for this type of look . Your pictures are impressive Alan , to say the least

Thank for the comments Mooch

All the best Alan