yes yes yes... i know... but there's a point to this...
so this week @zshadowwalker challenged me to shoot full colour, preferably supersaturated and using techniques like HDR processing... i don't get HDR... i've tried... really... and there's a craptastic mess in my other album to show my good faith... but at the end of the day, I just can't get it to work for me...
this image is one of three shots that were intended to be melded via HDR... personally, i felt that any 3 of the images on their own was infinitely better than the HDR version... this was converted to b&w using the high dynamic range preset in nik silver efex, and it is WAAAAAY better than the HDR'd version...
And yes, i expect you're bored silly of seeing these buildings, but it was my almost last ditch hope of getting something that worked for HDR, and while it didn't, i still kinda liked the light and clouds... :D
HDR? "Good" HDR is when you don't realize that there has been anything special done to achieve a super wide dynamic range. "Bad" HDR is that "craptastic" mess that some folks seem to love, over-saturated colors, over-sharpening, wide glowing edges...
Digital cameras have improved so fantastically just over the last two years, and editors along with them, so that if shot "properly" - exposed for the highlights, ETTR (expose to the right) so that highlights are not completely blown out - shadow detail can be recovered without overwhelming random "noise" being added, all on one frame. Only the most the most extreme dynamic range cannot be handled.
Digital cameras have improved so fantastically just over the last two years, and editors along with them, so that if shot "properly" - exposed for the highlights, ETTR (expose to the right) so that highlights are not completely blown out - shadow detail can be recovered without overwhelming random "noise" being added, all on one frame. Only the most the most extreme dynamic range cannot be handled.
Well, some cameras, the sensor combined with the image processor actually, better than others of course. I won't mention names, but look at the "landscape" DxOMark score http://www.dxomark.com/cameras/launched-between-2002-and-2015#hideAdvancedOptions=false&viewMode=list&yDataType=rankDxo
OK enough. Off my soap box. :)
Love the image in B&W though. Fav.
Great sky too!
And - super-fav! :-)