Urban Zebra
Rocher Percé
Going on with the Quebec series. I found it difficult while post-processing this image to lighten up the grass in the lower left without making it look unrealistic. I guess this scene would have been a good candidate for HDR rendering.
Published on October 25, 2006.
Tags: Canon EF 17-40, Canon EOS 350D, Landscape, Nature, Quebec September 2006, Water.
Captured on 2006-09-21 at 10:23.
Focal length: 17 mm (27 mm full-frame equiv.).
Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/11, ISO 200, Manual mode (M).
Comments
sAm on October 26, 2006 #1
Well done with this, composition is sound, I also think the grass works as is due to it being an overcast day. HDR rendering huh, do you do 3D rendering too?
Andreas on October 26, 2006 #2
sAm: I did once toy with 3d rendering but the results were far from something you could call convincing… 
Massimo on March 24, 2007 #3
In these cases I use a “curves” layer with a diagonal gradient on the layer mask. This way I can control how much to change the lightness and contrast selectively on the area that need it, and desaturate the colors if they look too weird.
Andreas on March 25, 2007 #4
Massimo: desaturating seems like a great idea, thanks for the tip!
