@!ex said:
moonwell said:
Here's a few favorites...
Lots of nice angles and captures, but I'm going to be brutally honest here (and I'm not an hdr hater, in fact I am one of it's biggest supporters) but the tonemapping/microcontrast/psudo-HDR look (I'm guessing processed using Topaz Adjust), is so over the top that it is killing these cool images for me. It's like you pushed it to 11, and not in a good way.
The problem, as I've noticed anyway, with HDRing single shot exposures (which I assume these are) where there is a relatively narrow DoF, you wind up processing the bokeh too much. These are pretty nice shots by themselves, but the bokeh just looks... weird.
In these sorts of situations, if I _really_ want to go HDR, I'll do two different tonemapped files. One for the background and one for the subject. Then I'll combine the images in PS and layer masks. I've had better luck here than trying to process the blurred out background in the same manner as the subject.
Just my $0.02.
I do like the second to last shot though. Great angle and the look on the Charger's face is awesome!