Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

[Hyreniq]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

OMG!!!! and I was making millions by selling this particular picture in galleries. I hope I don't get sued.

Are you kidding me???????

[Siggie]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

Bell, the clouds might be a result of the blending of multiple exposures. Ie, if the clouds moved between exposures. I will take a look at the individual raw exposures to see.



Hayreniq, I didn't want the sky to be gray (since it wasn't in reality or in any of the exposures). I have not done any adjustments yet for the lens distortion caused by the super-wide angle; once I do, the lines will straighten out a bit.


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Also, let me add just for legal purposes that I retain all copyright/ownership of my photos and reproduction of any kind is not permitted.

[Hyreniq]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

I did few adjustments to your picture see if you like it. The sky is grey and the church is more straight now.

[Hyreniq]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

HDR should be done just to express the way the scenery left an impression on you when you've first seen it. Because most of the times a photo that we take don't exactly represents what or the way we've seen it at the time. Some people overdo it then it looks like some kind of an imaginary world.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

HDR often looks that way, but it's a matter of preference as it is with art. Personally, I like a slightly more natural look to it, but most people seem to like this more surreal effect. The sky is not manipulated separately. It was just within 30 minutes prior to a thunderstorm so there were some nice clouds and dramatic lighting.

But the way the photo is exposed now, the clouds look like blue sky, and the blue sky looks like clouds - so I think the reality of the moment (which sound like it was a rather evocative one) is not being depicted in the photo and has been lost.

[Siggie]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

Sorry, don't like it. It looks far too artificial and overly manipulated.

Does this work with other aspects of life in Armenia (or anywhare)? Reality stays as it is, but we can photoshop some democracy in later and add a dramatic sky full of tints of liberty and prosperity and with rays of bright futures.

HDR often looks that way, but it's a matter of preference as it is with art. Personally, I like a slightly more natural look to it, but most people seem to like this more surreal effect. The sky is not manipulated separately. It was just within 30 minutes prior to a thunderstorm so there were some nice clouds and dramatic lighting.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

^^Nice HDR.

HDR, the 2010s equivalent of the 1980s square, tobacco-tinted, graduated filter. And it is just as overused (whenever you notice it is there, it is being overused).

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

Here's a teaser...

Sorry, don't like it. It looks far too artificial and overly manipulated.

Does this work with other aspects of life in Armenia (or anywhare)? Reality stays as it is, but we can photoshop some democracy in later and add a dramatic sky full of tints of liberty and prosperity and with rays of bright futures.

[hrai]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

Here's a teaser...

Siggie, that is a beautiful pic!

[Siggie]

Re: Trip to Armenia (including pictures)

^^Nice HDR.

Ty, sir! I tried to bracket whatever I could (even if handheld) so that I could hdr everything that would work.