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Bob Ross Memento by *duncan-blues:iconduncan-blues:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Landscapes

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A picture taken during my late-summer vacation to Sweden this year.

The outcome reminded me of some paintings by Bob Ross
"...and a happy little boat lives over there"



Technical:

The picture is an HDR photography, assembled from four individually exposed pictures of the same scene, taken with my Konica Monolta DiMAGE A2 on a tripod.
The images were first developed from RAW using Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop Elements 5, then denoised using "NeatImage Pro+" to reduce the grainyness in the darker parts of the picture, then fed to Photomatix 2.5.4 as 16 bit TIFF files, turned into an HDR file and then tonemapped and saved again as 16 bit TIFF file.
Back in Elements 5, the resulting picture was cleaned up a second time, brightness- and tone-adjusted, touched up and finally saved as 8 bit JPEG file.

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Mood: Joy ~Janszoon Dec 29, 2007, 1:07:38 PM
Hi duncan-blues,

very nice HDR-image. Cool!
I added your photo to my favourites.
:iconkessalia:
*kessalia Dec 29, 2007, 2:12:29 PM
Ooh, I love the composition and colors. :D I do find the lens flares there a bit distracting, but with the sun there there's only so much you can do. *L*

my fav part is the reflection of the sky in the pool on the left.
:iconelvish-fiend:
~elvish-fiend Dec 29, 2007, 2:53:21 PM
wow, that is really beautiful! everything looks so real!!!

it sounds like an awful lot of work to make it...but i guess its worth it for something like this :D

--
hindsight is 20-20
:iconduncan-blues:
*duncan-blues Dec 29, 2007, 3:54:48 PM
Errm, yeah, well... actually it IS real, it is - at least to some point - still a photography :D
:iconelvish-fiend:
~elvish-fiend Dec 29, 2007, 4:55:28 PM
yeah, well thats what i mean. it looks too real to be a photograph :P

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hindsight is 20-20
:iconduncan-blues:
*duncan-blues Dec 29, 2007, 4:56:34 PM
That's why HDR photography is sometimes referred to as "Hyperreal" :D
:icondd45:
*dd45 Dec 30, 2007, 1:23:13 AM
wow.... maybe that's why my snapshots look like... well, snapshots :lol:

damn fine picture! :D

--
Neither Angel of Heaven nor Demon of Hell, I wander the fine grey line between.
:iconduncan-blues:
*duncan-blues Dec 30, 2007, 5:31:49 AM
Heh thanks! :blush:

Well, if you invest days on end for posing a 3D scenery, more days setting up the right lighting and all and finally wait yet another day for the final high quality render, then I think you can invest 15 minutes set-up and photography plus an hour or two in postwork to get a high quality photography, don't you think? ;)
:iconduncan-blues:
*duncan-blues Dec 30, 2007, 6:09:11 AM
Yeah the lens flare is a bit too strong for my taste too. I wouldn't mind a gentle lens flare, I actually like them every now and then as long as they stay gentle and non-distracting.
I really have to try and re-create something like this with my new camera once I get the next chance for a vacation in Sweden.
I also should have made yet another very short-timed exposure of this shot to get a little structure into the bright blotch that is the sunset. Still I like the overall outcome of the picture very much.
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