Chalk up another one for Tom's corruptible influence. Not an IR, but a 6 shot HDR turned BW, then "tarted up" with Solar. I was interested in how the effect would look on wood rather than metal. Of course your mileage may vary. Actually you can blame this one on Tim Michels, and give Tom a break. http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/15999/1/140980505.43OAuNmk.Oldbarnsolarized.jpg
You could sell this one EZ to a company selling wood varnish and polish
The solarization makes this one look as if it had been taken inside a huge sail boat. The solar wave continues !
Thanks all. I have been using Nik HDR mostly because I'm lazy, and can access it out of bridge in PS. After that I didn't do much tonemapping, but uses Afex Silver for the conversion with lots of structure added, and finally Nik color for the solorization. Very quick to process. Nice thing about the place is its proximity, and the fact that it is enclosed (nice on stormy days). The HDR just brings out the detail in the place.
IMO (and that is what it is, an opinion) it is just too harsh. A large print would seem to screen at me.
At first it interests me and draws my eyes in, but then it starts to hurt my eyes and make them wander off, not focussing in any one area for too long.
Like many other way-overdone HDR images, that is what I equate this to in terms of B&W.
I would LOVE to see this picture done up similarly, but not with such harsh HDR.
