UNIVERSITY LIBRARY X 3

[FUJI]

Out of my comfort zone a little here......Architecture in't usually my bag....but sometimes....

A good example can attract my photographer's,  gaze as here.

Not a new building by any means, but one that never ceases to excite the Creative Artist in me.....................I take photographs of it nearly every time I visit the University of Warwick Campus.

Here, I present the tidied up Original....then an HDR....... then finally with a tint of blue:

Observations and comments very welcome:

FUJI

 

[ChrisLumix]

The second doesn't look HDR so much as 'overworked'? In fact, looking at the really controlled dynamic range of the first shot, I'd say you don't need HDR here at all. Of the three, I prefer the mono by miles. 

[colinb]

Sorry to be hard Fuji but I don't like the shot, more of a record of a time and place than architectural, the HDR has made the whites grey and I don't think the image has really benefited from it. But I do like the fact you are game to try something different and the almost duo-tone blue image is very nice and would look good as part of a set.

[FUJI]

Hi Thank you both.........

Colin....... I too think that the blue tinted version is the best of the three, but, had I not experimented with the HDR, I wouldn't gave reached that stage of my processing.

What motivated me to take the shot in the first place was the remarkable similarity of the colour of the sky and most of that amazing building.....it would look better minus the trees, but there isn't a viewpoint from which to eliminate them.

For thirty or more years, I was a Theatre Set Designer/Painter, for four amateur theatres , it is my background in this which inspires my sometimes....off-the-wall.....dabbling; I hope I never lose my sense of wonder and urge to experiment.

FUJI

[Korky]

I think the blue tint works best - the 'HDR' is, as Chris says, looks a little overworked.

For me it's the figure at bottom left that needs a little judicious clone bobbling and I think the image would be improved quite a lot.

Korky