Fresnatic
Pigeon Point Lighthouse HDR
Here is another one from the archives! This was taken on my driving trip from San Diego two years ago! I drove all of the way from San Diego back up to Washington state! What a fantastic trip it was! As it still has been kind of rainy here in Seattle...hey it is the rainy season right now...I have been going back into the archives and reworking some of my older shots. I have this same shot earlier in my photostream www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/3604999090/
One of the greatest things about HDR photography, is that through the tonemapping process, I can create a "Painterly Feel" to my photograph. For some people, they hate it because they don't think it is a photograph. Photography is an art, so it is subject to people's opinions and I respect that. I can go from a totally "Natural" HDR to a "Painted" look depending on my feeling at the time I am processing the image.
I have also learned quite a bit in two years...I am certainly not an expert...but I like to experiment! I feel this looks better than my first attempt as I dialed back most of the saturation in the hillside. I did up the blue just a bit, which I feel gives this image a richer look. It is sad to see the state of this mighty lighthouse. Pieces of the ironwork are falling off and part of the foundation stones were crumbling. They do happen to light it only once a year, but I heard that because the state of California is low on money, they may not be doing that anymore!
This is a combination of three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix 4.0. I cropped and dodged and burned in Photoshop CS5. Ran through Topaz Adjust an Topaz InFocus. Final adjustments in Lightroom 3.0 to add vignette and dial back some of the colors that were saturated from the HDr processing.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. As always, thank you for your views, comments and faves. I appreciate them. Just two more weeks and I will be spending an entire week on the central Oregon coast! The lighthouses and the coastline are calling my name!
Pigeon Point Lighthouse HDR
Here is another one from the archives! This was taken on my driving trip from San Diego two years ago! I drove all of the way from San Diego back up to Washington state! What a fantastic trip it was! As it still has been kind of rainy here in Seattle...hey it is the rainy season right now...I have been going back into the archives and reworking some of my older shots. I have this same shot earlier in my photostream www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/3604999090/
One of the greatest things about HDR photography, is that through the tonemapping process, I can create a "Painterly Feel" to my photograph. For some people, they hate it because they don't think it is a photograph. Photography is an art, so it is subject to people's opinions and I respect that. I can go from a totally "Natural" HDR to a "Painted" look depending on my feeling at the time I am processing the image.
I have also learned quite a bit in two years...I am certainly not an expert...but I like to experiment! I feel this looks better than my first attempt as I dialed back most of the saturation in the hillside. I did up the blue just a bit, which I feel gives this image a richer look. It is sad to see the state of this mighty lighthouse. Pieces of the ironwork are falling off and part of the foundation stones were crumbling. They do happen to light it only once a year, but I heard that because the state of California is low on money, they may not be doing that anymore!
This is a combination of three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix 4.0. I cropped and dodged and burned in Photoshop CS5. Ran through Topaz Adjust an Topaz InFocus. Final adjustments in Lightroom 3.0 to add vignette and dial back some of the colors that were saturated from the HDr processing.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. As always, thank you for your views, comments and faves. I appreciate them. Just two more weeks and I will be spending an entire week on the central Oregon coast! The lighthouses and the coastline are calling my name!