This bug you?

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:11:45 -0500, Tony Cooper
wrote:
: On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 07:12:23 -0800, Savageduck
: wrote:
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: On 2014-02-06 14:19:27 +0000, Tony Cooper said:
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: On 6 Feb 2014 13:50:22 GMT, Sandman wrote:
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: In article , Tony Cooper
: wrote:
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: A hardware store in Zephyr Hills FL on a rainy day.
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: http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Curren...1-31-09-X2.jpg
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: I find this pretty odd...
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: Tony Cooper
: 50x and 60x zoom cameras
: 01/16/2014
:
: "No need for anything more in post unless someone wants to give it that
: hideous postcard HDR look."
:
: Tony Cooper
: Apple is purchasing Twitter analytics firm
: 12/10/2013
:
: "I've commented (usually somewhat negatively if they HDR)
: on the photographs of others who have linked to their images."
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: It's not an HDR image. Just some tweaks in post using Photoshop.
:
: Every image presents a choice in post. In this case, the scene was
: interesting to me in subject matter, but a straight rendition seemed
: rather blah.
:
: My objection to the HDR look - which I agree this one has - is that
: HDR is too often used to make what could be a good photograph treated
: straight-up into one with the "hideous postcard look".
:
: My objection to inappropriately over cooked HDR is the over saturated
: and glowing "Kinkade" look, rather than what you call the "hideous
: postcard look". I feel that you get more of a "postcard look" from
: attempts to use Kodachrome or vivid Velvia simulations in post.
:
: Well, the difference between the "Kinkade look" and the "hideous
: postcard look" are just the choice of terms to describe something that
: not appealing to us.
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: I'm older than you are, Duck, and from an era where a particular style
: of postcard was on every rack in every tourist destination. Garish
: images of mountains and beaches were the usual subject. That
: association has stayed with me. Kinkade came much later.
:
: Not that I wouldn't try the "postcard look"; just not the "hideous
: postcard look". Not all postcards had the same look. I'll try to
: come up with something that replicates the other postcard look, but
: not soon. I'm currently immersed in trying to master the Adobe
: Premiere Pro movie editing program to process some footage the
: grandchildren are making.
:
: This particular image has a look & feel of one which has had a fair
: amount of tonal contrast, or even tone mapping used in post, giving it
: a hardish, grunge look. That said, it has an interesting appeal, and I
: like it.
:
: Like I said, it's just a rather ordinary image tarted up to make it a
: little more interesting. Not all may agree that it's more interesting
: this way, but I like to experiment.

Out of curiosity, why did you make it a vertical? It feels cramped somehow.

Bob