[THEME] Green --- color of life

[Anirban Halder]

Thank you Akira, Frank & Børge!

[Lars Hansen]

Ah, great shot !  Is it for sale? 

Thanks John! No, sold a few years ago ... it is a summer house without several of the basic installations 

+1. Great shot indeed

Thanks Anirban! - and the same to you for the rain in Calcutta!     

[Lars Hansen]

Exploring HDR Efex Pro - the original came out somewhat flat.

[Lars Hansen]

A birch ... got some chestnut too, but , heck, where are these shots?

Don't worry Frank - those Birchs can stand alone and are lovely 

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you Lars.

HDR is always very near to overcooked.

Try to add some structural contrast to the now dominant tonal
contrast....

just for the idea. Quick and Dirty on my phone...

[Lars Hansen]

HDR is always very near to overcooked.

Try to add some structural contrast to the now dominant tonal
contrast....

just for the idea. Quick and Dirty on my phone...

Thanks for the suggestion Frank.

Overcooked.. I guess that's not something one wants to be associated with - image wise.
Do you find my attempt overcooked? I tried not to push it too far and thought I'd get away with the result   

I like your attempt - whether it's overcooked I cannot say. I'll look into structural contrast in stead - my idea was to emphasize the Oak tree in the intense green light and structural contrast seems to be the right approach.   

 

[Frank Fremerey]

I did truckloads of HDR shots. Sometimes panoramas sometimes single shots from the tripod.

My aim is to mimik what I see and what the camera cannot show without a little help from her
friends the algorithms in a computer.

So I use HDR to extract the brightness and the darkness the structure and tones my current best Camera
fails to reproduce. With that result as a starting point I then try in a second step to balance tonal and structural
contrast in a way that appears to look natural.

That is my idea. My comment. Noone needs to follow that path.

all the best. Back to GREEN...

[Lars Hansen]

I did truckloads of HDR shots. Sometimes panoramas sometimes single shots from the tripod.

My aim is to mimik what I see and what the camera cannot show without a little help from her
friends the algorithms in a computer.

So I use HDR to extract the brightness and the darkness the structure and tones my current best Camera
fails to reproduce. With that result as a starting point I then try in a second step to balance tonal and structural
contrast in a way that appears to look natural.
That is my idea. My comment. Noone needs to follow that path.

all the best. Back to GREEN...

Thanks again Frank - very useful comment and much appreciated.  I'll find my own path ... with a little inspiration 

So, back to GREEN - here is a green path  , once more created using HDR Efex Pro and this time with a "structurized" preset. I hope it turned out to give a "green forest sensation"... my mind says it was something like that I experienced but ones mind has a tendency to be more vivid than the dull truth (so I ignored the "natural look" a bit).     

[Frank Fremerey]

In this shot I like the intensity, the "glow" ... I do not really care whether it is "natural" or not ... the "glowing forest" is something I did experience...

[pluton]

Exploring HDR Efex Pro - the original came out somewhat flat.

This is a good go at the old problem of accommodating the extreme contrast of the sky/tree area while creating  a pleasant, realistic look in the lower contrast area of soft, flatter light under the trees.

[BW]

Life, standing in green, warm moss, jumping into an ice cold creek and exploring the undulating nature of a untamed river on a glorious day.

[Frank Fremerey]

Beautiful. The Twins, the girl, the dog. Wish my kids had more contact with their natural environment and
less with the similarly fascinating virtuality...

[Frank Fremerey]

Toni Cragg in Wuppertal

[BW]

Thanks Frank! Once I get them away from the wifi, everything is just fine. Off course, Pokemon Go helps a lot

[Fons Baerken]