Eric Kong's City, Land, Night & Sea-scapes

thanx everyone!

Here are some taken in the morning on last saturday;

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Excellent captures! Besides your sunsets, this is another series that i like alot~ I like the sky color that you did. For this series, how did you achieve that?

beautiful set! did you use vignetting from photoshop for your #1?

erm... one thing for sure is that on that day, the sky was really blue and the cloud was formless unlike any ordinary day. after taking, i just post-process to get the back the blue sky but i guess some was overdone.

very nice works you have! keep up your good PP skills!

Oh wow! you are so lucky! very nice of you to share these shots! Some times over post processing can bring in nice photos! cheers!

Envious of you! good job!

i like last photo.. nice work keep it up..

thanx everyone for liking. i still think if the photos taken with the correct settings then it'll saves alot of time in post-processing.

i have to confess that i dun know anything about photoshop. i uses lightroom and even that i rely on presets. it's just that i just have to roughly know wat each of the preset will bring to the photo and i'll apply the presets which i find suitable.

my HDR, i uses photomatix. it does everything for me and i'll bring it into lightroom and maybe find a suitable preset to fit in and viola.

Hey you should try exposure blendings! it is also good to do HDR with exposure blendings, go and read up on it and try, it is fun and really produce nicer HDR than photomatix because you get to set everything to your own preference..

my friend, check this link out. see if you like it.

http://photodoto.com/exposure-blending-tutorial/

Metalz: thanx! will give it a try.

Here's a set taken on sunday evening;

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#3 is HDR cause i wanted to make the cloud dramatic, in a way looks like 'independence day.' but then i think i failed and i think if the alien see this also will runaway! lol
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This one also a HDR result as i couldn't find a way to recover back my sky on the top right as it was overly-exposed when taken.
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I will go for pic 2, pic 6 looks like armageddon.

nice series! thank so much for sharing!

my vote is for #4!

why #1 and #3 don't look so sharp? is it because of the PP?

Amazing!

hahaha! your description for #3. Yes, it looks like doomsday to alien. lol

beautiful! hey how about trying to make your HDR look as natural as possible? not really too much over processed? you can try!

ericltkong wrote:Metalz: thanx! will give it a try.

No problem my friend, try it and let me know how you feel and what is your views on this method.

#1 i remembered there wasn't enough light and i din increase my ISO. #3 was due to the same reason.

maybe that is the case? Hmm never mind.. shall wait for your next series.

it was the case... shoot using manual and shutter was slower than the human beings moving.

Share another set of sunset here again;

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