Chateau

[Catdaddy]

Ok, not strictly a chateau, cos it's in Germany, but that's what the tourist guides said. I think it used to be a Bishop's residence in Wurzburg, but was taken over by the Nazis during the war and used as a barracks and palace.

Taken a few years ago on my Nikon F65 and scanned the slide in. I thought I could squeeze a bit more out of this one, and all the talk of HDR recently kind of inspired me to have a go. Unfortunately it didn't want to work in PS, so I had a go manually using layer masks, etc.

Let me know what you think...

The original shot...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/walkdev/Photography/Chateau_Orig.jpg

The rehashed version...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/walkdev/Photography/Chateau_Update.jpg

Chris

[Grendel]

The rehash works really well - you've bought the picture to life. It's much brighter without having blown the highlights. Personally I would crop out the stonework (is it a wall?) at the very bottom of the shot though, it's a bit distracting

[Catdaddy]

Thanks Paul - you might have a point there! Yes, it's a wall...

[RobertP]

Don't know why but I don't get a sense of scale. Could be a model village exhibit ;)

[Catdaddy]

Don't know why but I don't get a sense of scale. Could be a model village exhibit ;)

Is that because of the shrub and the grass in the foreground, Robert?

[RobertP]

Hmmm more the foreground giant grass maybe?

The building being a bit too perfect isn't helping it to look real either :)

[Catdaddy]

The building being a bit too perfect isn't helping it to look real either :)

Them Germans, eh? ;)

To be honest, I did skew it a little to get rid of the converging verticals. You reckon that might have something to do with it?

[RobertP]

Tried taking out some of the size cues

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/723/Chateau2.jpg

Not sure it's done much for the picture though.