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[F1L1P]

From my recent visit to the States:
Critique encouraged!

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will update this topic as soon as I go through all the photos

 

[red]

Bloom is cooL - So nice colorS

 

[BBW]

FiL1P, thanks for these! Glad to see you back on here!

 

[Fiddler]

Nice pictures. Very appealing to my eye.

 

[F1L1P]

Thank you.

Here are some more:

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[bilzmale]

These are all good - thanks for sharing.

 

[deirdre]

Really nice Golden Gate photo!

I never get the good fog when I go.

 

[Ray Sachs]

Some VERY nice photographs in these sets. I'm interested in the processing you used for the first one of the NYC taxi. Its clearly way over the top but I think it works really well for that shot.

-Ray

 

[LisaO]

You hit up both coasts and captured them quite well. Please do tell more of you post processing. HDR or faux HDR?

 

[f6cvalkyrie]

Very nice work !

CU
Rafael

 

[F1L1P]

Really nice Golden Gate photo!

I never get the good fog when I go.

I know, I was extremly lucky, cause I was there for only a few days, but I got to see it both in fog and in full glory during a sunny day.

Some VERY nice photographs in these sets. I'm interested in the processing you used for the first one of the NYC taxi. Its clearly way over the top but I think it works really well for that shot.

-Ray

Thank you.
The first taxi was done by extracting 3 differently exposured JPEGs from RAW file (-1 EV, 0 EV, +1EV) and merging them into HDR by using Photomatix HDR option.
The same method I used with this photo, but I think cab looks better.
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You hit up both coasts and captured them quite well. Please do tell more of you post processing. HDR or faux HDR?

Thanks! NYC cab is HDR, as described above.

Very nice work !

Thank you.
To all - It would also help if you could point me what photos could be done better by using different crop or post-processing

 

[F1L1P]

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Golden Gate bridge

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Tunnel under the Alcatraz building

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NYC night panorama
cheezy, but I like it

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AKA Postcard row, SF, CA