I like number one. A very threatening sky over the gay (in the traditional sense) house and blossom colours.
I was going to comment that for a first try both were nice because they WEREN'T overdone Were these HDR on a single exposure? or multiple exposures? I only ask because metadata is popping up and with multiple exposures this doesn't normally show due to multiple sets of data in combined one shot.
I think the first picture is very nice, bravo. Can you crop out the fence?
Here are the 5 exposure shots that were merged on the first image.
Feel free to download it and play around to see if anyone can come up with something different
May not work well for 2 reasons a) those images are now jpegs and jpegs are no where near as good as RAW, so unless you processed jpegs in the first place....... b) the forum software may compress the files when uploaded, so they once again may have been degraded.
The forum software must somehow be able to extract metadata from 1 file of the set. I was just curious about this, hence my asking.
I think, if I am correct in thinking the top shot of the 5 was the 0 exposure, then it is a little underexposed. You really do need to get you base exposure correct to get the exposure coverage of highlights and shadows to give you the "best" HDR. It can be extremely difficult to get good coverage of exposure in all ares of your image. It is one area I struggle with especially with water shots
Don't crop it! Don't! It's not just the 4k$ - the fence is protecting your...crop(s)!
But, seriously, a PARTLY cropped fence, could add to the composition. What do you think of this variation:
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Hows this?
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