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Sep 10 2012 07:51pm
My opinion:

The HDR is overdone, but that point has been made. Professionals that do HDR make sure that it's so subtle you don't know if it's HDR - unless of course they are screwing around.

The composition is weird to me. Your photo has no primary subject, is it the statue on the left or the building on the right? The interest is split and it's split in a way that really pulls you in two directions.

Also you have a lot of motion in the photo, probably because the clouds were moving (because of multiple frames) or your tripod shook. Not sure, but for that it's a little blurry for me.

The B&W version looks more blurry to me but this is OK because it's almost reminiscent of film photography. The color one is over-saturated, to me. But half of these points are a technical issue and easily correctable.

The whole make-break of the image, for me, is the division of interest between the two subjects ... it'd be a little different if the two objects were close to the same plane of focus, but one is very obviously on the foreground while the other is in the background.

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Sep 11 2012 10:39am
Thanks for the info everyone! Good stuff.
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Sep 19 2012 10:43am
Quote (Xandriia @ Sep 10 2012 05:34am)
No.

I find the best HDR images are the ones where you wonder if its HDR or not.


i agree

this is my last hdr image:

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