I learned another trick

HDR OOB - Fontana Cavallina - Italia

One of my biggest beefs with poorly rendered HDR is how completely flat it looks. I’ve seen some VERY well done HDR… but this isn’t one of them. SO let’s crop out some horrendous background (thank you for that) and make it all 3d with some carefully placed shadows. Still out of focus, still overprocessed… but hey – he did some photoshop tricks! It just begs the question… why?

“MY FIRST HDR…… LOVING IT”

 

So assuming one can overlook the off-centeredness and bizarre depth of field happening, I’d like to know why it is one would bother going through the eyebleed inducing HDR process for a matte sheet metal looking sky behind the building aura.
This friend, is intervention time.  Save yourself the embarrassment of further badly overprocessed photos making their way into your portfolio and make this your last HDR.  One day you’ll thank me.