First HDR Portrait

Why did you do HDR? I think it would have looked far better and more natural had you just used two exposures (even processing them from the same frame) and blended them together to get a good exposure for the sky and another for the model.

Not a fan of the colour cast the HDR has put over the whole image. The glow around the model totally ruins the rest for me. The sky looks nice though.

Sorry to sound so harsh. The HDR just doesn't work for me in this case.

 

i can understand the desire for the HDR look and toning. and i don't think that is the problem. if you had wanted natural looking you would not have done this, so given that we are not after a natural looking photo, we move on to critique of it for what it is. i think the composition is generally okay, maybe if you moved a step to the right so that the tower in the background had it's own space rather than intersecting with the model. but the main main main problem with this image is the haloing around the model especially. you could try to burn it even, but this is not an easy task. maybe reduse the overall effect to recuce the halo as well as attempting to gently burn the halo.

 

Well, I like it. Kind of ... erie!

Best Regards,

 

interesting PP ... however i agree with others, it would of looked better as a double exposure rather HDR... HDR kind of takes away from it .... or atleast in this case..

 

I don't like the treatment at all, but also am curious how necessary using "HDR" techniques was in the first place. Was the scene really that contrasty? (It's obviously tough to tell how bright the sky etc. was things now stand) If not, could you have gotten "better" results by just faking things and developing a RAW with multiple settings to feed to your program?

 

love it !
did you do it through cs3 or photomatix?

 

the halo is not from her movement. it's from the HDR.

 

You are correct.

If she moved, she would be blurry, even with HDR.