Glad you liked it @disqus_Wqvtb9DLqt:disqus

Thanks David – I hope we see less and less of the over processed stuff. If more people educate themselves on the topic I think that will be the case. At first glance, the images may have punch but they lack strong elements like good lighting and composition often – so the impact is short term. You see COLOR and that’s it. Once they realize photography is more than just punching the viewer in the face with color, most people will look to honing their skills more and not rely on that to grab attention.

Thanks Paul!

LOL picture is from 2013! And I had my own business already in 1991 shooting weddings – that’ll give you some idea of my age! 😉 That and I graduated college with a photography degree in 1988!

Aw shucks, that must be an old picture, you look too young to have messed around in a darkroom 🙂

Thanks Robert

LOL thanks. So go back and give it another go! That train is a great subject.

Yup too true. That would have worked too. I also sandwiched negatives in the darkroom to reduce contrast too.

Thank you very much for your reply. To me, the train is is over done and you perfectly right. The white line around the train is distraction.. I did not pay attention to my teacher when discussed the HDR.. . I mean you 🙂

Thank you, That was interesting. I grew up in California and spent my early adulthood in Santa Barbara. You could be driving down the street and see 10-20 Brooks students with their view cameras pointed at a business across the street. They had taken their first exposure in daylight and were waiting for it to get dark to take the second exposure (on the same sheet of film) of the lighted interior. Another example of HDR. We have it made today with our histograms and instant viewing of our shots..

Thanks @CaribooDerek:disqus Yes I follow Elia and love his work as well.

HI @disqus_Np9nUrPsKV:disqus – ha ha, yes I got you! Yes of course dodging and burning is HDR as well – and Ansel did a lot of that too. Have you ever seen an unedited version of his Moon over Hernandez image? It looks nothing like the final one. It’s in this book if you’re interested https://amzn.to/2gFebcH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Ar5ZPuKUM

You may say @disqus_YDFXatus8l:disqus LOL. Yes I agree – I think it’s coming around back to more natural but some people still cringe just at the mention of HDR because of the reputation it has.

Thanks @Fltlndr:disqus

I have also been following Elia Locardi’s Photographing The World series, in which he selects which images to use, from the series he’s taken, on the basis of what elements of the scene each one best shows. He then layers and blends them manually, using just portions of each image. When he does further tweaking he can take it too far, so I occasionally find the final result too much, but the process is definitely informative.

Good article, Darlene, and a great location as well!