Canyonlands HDR by choronr

Terragen • Landscape • posted on Jul 25, 2010

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Taking the good advice of Oshyan, I tried one of his suggestions: Using Oloneo, a new program to enhance my original image 'Canyonlands'. I had reworked the vegetation a bit and increased the contrast a little and saved the image as a .tif file. Then, taking the .tif into Photoshop, I made a second adjustment darkening the sky a bit saving both first and second files. I took both .tif files into Oloneo and created an HDR tone mapping image using the two .tif files. From here, I took the saved adjustments back into Photoshop and saved the image as a .jpg. I hope you like the results. I have always tended to be a bit too conservative with post work adjustments thinking with the purest attitude. Maybe it is time to start thinking out of the box ... maybe to saturated, we'll see.

Comments (22)

brickart

12:01AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

beautiful scenery, stunning realism 5+

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LindaMcC

12:23AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

Well, the result is stunning, Bob. I like it even better than the original.

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peedy

12:33AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

I think it's gorgeous! Looks like a photo! Corrie

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Tiwiwine

2:40AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

A very nice mood, fine color tuning.

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ariz

4:16AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

Excellent post card Bob. Ground looks very real and as always a great sky.

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masonspappy

5:23AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

Very, Very well done. outstanding Realism!

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A.C.Wolfe

9:43AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

This is very awesome!

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abreojos

10:06AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

looking good Bob, just for fun I ran it through Photoshop starting off making it a smart object then adding a curves adjustment layer on auto, shadows/highlights adjustment along with a high-pass sharpening layer set to overlay set at 70% opacity and it looks like a real photo crisp and clear. Thanks for the tip about Oloneo. I'll check it out.

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stbc

10:22AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

Much improved lighting. I like it. One more suggestion, however, the ground looks too purple on my monitor. Could be my monitor, although!!!

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Dotthy

10:23AM | Mon, 26 July 2010

wonderful light and vegetation, I love the format also. Excellent done Bob!!!!!

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tennesseecowgirl

12:27PM | Mon, 26 July 2010

I would love to take a photo such as this.. beautiful work great sky!

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carlx

1:05PM | Mon, 26 July 2010

Superb photo realism, Bob!!!

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2121

4:20PM | Mon, 26 July 2010

superb work, wonderful light

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phfrancke

6:25PM | Tue, 27 July 2010

I like this very much. It brings pleasure to see this beauty, virtual though it may be -- you found a piece of heaven and stole it and set it in front of us.

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choronr

6:46PM | Tue, 27 July 2010

Thank you all for visiting ...glad you liked the picture.

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Fahrenheit451

9:19PM | Tue, 27 July 2010

It's a great improvement Bob!I think Oshyan had a good suggestion! It's an accepted methodology to "enhance" with postwork! We all do it & most artists will agree it's O.K. as long as we don't overdo it & that we admit the postwork was done. Thanks for the tip concerning Oloneo in conjunction with Photoshop too! BTW if you were to change the color of the ground surface to a black lava, you would have a very close approximation for "Craters of The Moon" near Boise,Idaho!

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