The Fountain

One of my first attempts at HDR. Although it has flaws, I really like this one.

Come on, check these other photos out!

  1. Rose Garden
  2. Photo No. 1601
  3. A Day At The Race Track
  4. At Vasquez Rocks
  5. Vasquez Rocks Revisited
  6. The Rock
  7. 5861
This entry was written by Juan, posted on February 18, 2010 at 12:08 am, filed under Photos and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

11 Comments

  1. Jay
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    Cool. I like it too. HDR B&W can be pretty cool. Just a pity the fountain is chopped off at the top… can you crop it bigger? (or clone the fountain shorter :-P )

    Was it from a single RAW, or multiple shots?

  2. Piyush Garyali
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 5:55 am | Permalink

    WOW!!! This is mind blowing Juan. Look at the clouds. What a beautiful composition!! :)

  3. Juan
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 8:10 am | Permalink

    Thank you, guys.

    Jay,

    I can’t crop it bigger because that’s the photo’s full size… and, unfortunately because of that, I can’t clone the fountain smaller either…

    The original is a single RAW file; for this I had to export 3 .jpg files with different “pseudo” exposures values each (set in LR), et voilà.

    But, you know what? I may go back to the Rose Garden and try this shot again. Next time, I’ll bracket the exposure, of course :D

  4. Ari
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 9:13 am | Permalink

    I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a b&w hdr pic. That’s pretty much awesome!

  5. Juan
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 9:57 am | Permalink

    Thank you, Ari!

  6. Kala
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

    I’m with Ari, I don’t remember seeing a monochrome HDR. Gorgeous!

  7. Juan
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, Kala!

  8. Anna
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    That is a spectacular fountain scene! I really, really like this in B&W as it shows detail with the fountain… and that beautiful sky. I think you did a great job processing with HDR.

  9. Juan
    Posted February 18, 2010 at 10:54 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, Anna!

  10. martinsoler
    Posted February 27, 2010 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Very nice,, well if this is your first one and it’s that good then the rest are likely to be amazing.
    http://martinsoler.com/category/hdr/

  11. Juan
    Posted February 27, 2010 at 3:33 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, Martin! I too hope the rest will be just as good or better.