...that you might be thinking of when you look at this photograph but it's actually an unfinished monument on the top of Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Recent visitors to my stream may have observed that clouds have been a prominent theme in the last few pictures - heck it was a great day, I wasn't going to pass up the chance of shots like this!
07/03/2010
This image has been blogged extensively. I'm grateful for the views
but, while you're here, how about checking out some of my other
pictures. You can see all of my HDR images here, have a look at my fake tilt-shift shots or just take a look at the rest of my photostream. Thanks for stopping by.
06/11/2011
I'm a bit hacked off that people are citing this as an example of bad
HDR. Just to be clear I'm not claiming this is a great HDR image but I
can't help it if other people want to blog and re-blog this and hold
it up as some awesome piece of art. I don't think it's that great myself but I can't control what other people make of it.
wburris, Jesse Kruger, bsrblake, and 208 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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elementalPaul 58 months ago | reply
Giittus (I seem to have a 1 in 10 chance of picking the right word for thank you in Sámi!). I appreciate the invite but I'm going to politely decline :-)
Incidentally, thanks to being extensively blogged, this image has now been viewed over 52,000 times! Wow!! Thanks to everyone who's stopped by and taken a wee peek :-)
Alex Linebrink 57 months ago | reply
Thanks for the awesome HDR. It rocks.
I've featured you in my latest post @ www.thatindiedude.com . You can find it here: www.thatindiedude.com/2008/10/inspired-3-hdr-photos-flickr/ Feel free to share the link to help you and some other awesome photographers get some more exposure :)
Keep up the AWESOME work!
Justin Simpson [deleted] 57 months ago | reply
whoah, 53,000 views!
elementalPaul 57 months ago | reply
At the back of my mind I do wonder if those are actual views or just server requests.
•·.·•ë£ï§å•·.·• (AWAY) 53 months ago | reply
Awesome treatment!!!
•·.·•ë£ï§å•·.·• (AWAY) 53 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Best of Flickr (admin invited), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
elementalPaul 53 months ago | reply
Thanks for your kind comment and invite :-)
nickspannagel@sbcglobal.net 49 months ago | reply
Great Pic .... from a far. Looking close the noise is way out of control fringing is everywhere and colors are in less than accurate. Harsh but true. This image really needs some better post processing or simply size it down. I'm really just jealous because this hdr really stands out from the rest, nicely done :)
elementalPaul 49 months ago | reply
Thank you for the in-depth critique! You make some fair points. I'm not sure if any HDR image stands up to really close scrutiny. As for the realism of the colour, and probably the image in general, well I never said I was aiming for realism! I read somewhere (doubtless in one of the many many places that this image has been blogged) that this image almost had a computer game look to it (I think the comparison was to Oblivion) and I'm fine with that.
pavtsorak 47 months ago | reply
great pic of greek monuments!!!!!bravo
elementalPaul 47 months ago | reply
Cheers! I'm assuming you know perfectly well it's not an actual Greek monument :-)
Nathanael.Waters 40 months ago | reply
The original is highly grainy. but the 1024 is alright. Looks nice :)
elementalPaul 39 months ago | reply
Thank you.
H@ppyfacE 23 months ago | reply
fantastic shot!!
elementalPaul 23 months ago | reply
Thanks.
Jojoe.photography 22 months ago | reply
Amazing work of art. Thanks for sharing.
elementalPaul 22 months ago | reply
Cheers, you're welcome!
KarenLKay 13 months ago | reply
Phenomenal!
elementalPaul 13 months ago | reply
Thank you.
elementalPaul 3 months ago | reply
I've done a new version of this image in black and white.