Contrived and unnatural, but in a Thomas Kinkade kind of style. Which, perhaps, explains the "commercial" appeal.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:42 AM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > Well, since you hate it, what are we supposed to say? > > Huh, not my kind of thing either. Hey, look, you even have star lights! > Whee! > > Heh. Marnie aka Doe ;-) Nice composition? Can say that. > > In a message dated 10/6/2013 10:26:36 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > postmas...@robertstech.com writes: > ...but it sells, so I need to be able to teach it to my students. > Hence this experiment. > > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7dd06804-hdr.htm > > Pseudo-HDR treatment (it's tone mapped from a single exposure). Lots > of tweaking with masks, selective noise reduction and other tricks to > make look more like an illustration than a photograph. > > Notes: > > 1/2-second exposure obtained without a tripod by bracing camera > against lamp post. > > I love the sneakers hanging over the phone lines in the upper > left-hand corner. > > "Gelateria Yogurteria Venexia" (in the center of the photo) makes the > most amazing triple-chocolate gelato in Italy. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.