Very interesting how different our images are and how different our preferred PP styles are!
Johann: Your inside-of-the-silo image is my favorite!
Boris: great collection of graffiti - the last two are my favorites and I like what you've done to the pink-saturation in #7! Your second set is great, too, and #10 is awesome! I'm looking forward to your Gärten der Welt pictures!
Stefan: my favorite is the tilt-shift Mamiya, fits well!
Carsten: I like the darker-approach in your last attempt for the inside of the hall, but then the lights from outside seem unnatural dark for my taste. The image before that is more to my taste.
carstenw wrote:
I took the opportunity to revisit my previous image, making it slightly darker inside, which I think (in retrospect and after some needling ) is more accurate. What do you think now?
Definitely better, I like the blue sky and green outside. Inside it has improved, but I think there could have been more modulation of the light due to shadows. If you look to the roof, hasn't it been darker in the right corner?
Your last one pleases me too. A new, interesting perspective I didn't shoot. It's crazy to see how different our pics are, both from perspective and processing.
I agree that the processing in the first image is suboptimal (I just tried to do it better but failed), it's intended more for illustrational purposes.
This one was really difficult to process, and I guess I won't know if I am happy with it until tomorrow. Leica 35mm Summilux-R, 4 shot HDR (I don't know where the 5th shot got to...):
Carsten, the strong perspective in your yadda-yadda shot is great. Powerful image! I also like the windows shot, but there is perhaps a touch too much ethereal glow in the mid-lower section of the wall for my taste.
Anyway, great to have some HDR shots in the mix as well.
Ulff, the furniture shots are a great! As are the building shots. I think the high contrast, yellowish tone actually works pretty well.
Argh. I want to go and shoot some run-down buildings after looking at these awesome images. I'd probably just take the Canon + Sigma 8-16 and the NEX + Sigma 30.
Yes, I really struggle with controlling the glow. It is not something I like particularly, but the sliders in Photomatix Pro are so intermingled with one another and with several parameters that it seems that when you touch one, you must compensate on another two. Also, the labels are just plain wrong on many counts.
carstenw wrote:
I took the opportunity to revisit my previous image, making it slightly darker inside, which I think (in retrospect and after some needling ) is more accurate. What do you think now?
Hi,
I think.... look and think... and another quick glance: Now it is better to my taste, and it is again another approach to the processing. It reminds me about how I can get stuck dragging the "gamma" slider in Photoshop to the left and then to the right and to the left and suddenly I don't remember what I wanted to do (and sometimes I certainly don't know where to leave the slider).
When comparing the variation I made (using your first version) I think I can conclude that I'm not very fond of HDR images. Still, I don't think the variation above could have been easily made from a single exposure. I wasn't there and it feels kinda stupid telling you how it should look. So, again, this is about preferences only. Unlike a traditional HDR I want parts to be dark and some parts blown - a mix between HDR and a traditional single exposure result. Maybe that kind of processing is more common than I know of.
I understand it as you strived for a realistic and documentary look and both your versions work fine for that. My variation is more about how I want the image the look imagining it was mine and I was about to print it. Maybe you have some comments or opinions on all this? Let me know if I should pull the image.
Ulff wrote:
I agree that the processing in the first image is suboptimal (I just tried to do it better but failed), it's intended more for illustrational purposes.
Heh. Fair enough, and an image I like a lot. I also like the orange furniture shot.
Hmm, I think I detect someone who is interested in Bernd and Hilla Becher's work My favorite is the first one. Which lens did you use? It must have been quite a large focal length...
Jonas, I see what you mean, although I do think I could see the clouds a bit clearer than that, and the shadows were not so crunchy in real life, with all the soft light everywhere. Still, I could up my contrast a bit more.
Here are my images from the Gärten der Welt, where we went after the Chemiewerk. An interesting and compared to Rüdersdorf quite colorful place. All shot with Summilux 50.
) is more accurate. What do you think now?
