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[Mark S]

No EXIF information included

I don't want to rub it in, but this is what it looks like in California, during the winter. As much as you in the UK live for blue skies, it is such a common phenomina in California it gets redundant, and, just like gray skies in the UK, a little boring. Any way, these buildings have been sitting here since the turn of the century, and I don't mean the 20th, but the 19th. Time has been working on them, they should have fallen long ago, but since it is so dry here there is little chance of wood rot.

This is a tone-map of 4 separate image shot in register. Work flow is: camera RAW; Lightroom 3.6 for gross adjustments; export to Photomatic for tone-mapping; exported to PS for fine adjustments. For this reason, I've not included any EXIF data; would have had to do it x4

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Mark S

[Glenn]

Superb shot and a natural looking HDR image. I'm not keen on the over processed HDR images.

For me I would be tempted to crop a little bit more from the top just to reduce the sky slightly

[StephenJD]

I agree with Glenn. The sky is a bit boring*, and doesnt add anything to the image, so I would crop enough off to put the sky line on the top third. Love the composition with the buildings on the right and the trees on the left, and the HDR processing is not overdone and looks very natural.

(*Wish we could have some of those boring blue skies!)

Stephen

[Deanneart]

Nice image Mark, I'd leave the crop as is. I like the value gradation in the blues in the sky. My only nit is the strong yellow-green in the trees on the left (miseltoe?) the warm tones draw the eye away from the focal buildings.

[Barry Fisher]

Glenn, on 10 February 2012 - 06:20 PM, said:

Superb shot and a natural looking HDR image. I'm not keen on the over processed HDR images.

Deanneart, on 16 February 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

I'd leave the crop as is. I like the value gradation in the blues in the sky. My only nit is the strong yellow-green in the trees on the left (miseltoe?) the warm tones draw the eye away from the focal buildings.

I can see where Deanne is coming from re the mistletoe but it's not enough to bother me. A lovely image Mark.

[Kiri]

I like the composition, but its not working for me I'm afraid. On my screen the blue is overpowering and coming out a bit dayglow with a halo above the hills when really I want my eye to be drawn towards the little ramshackle hut as the focus of the image.