Oh well

We had just walked around the pond, the nearest pond to our house. I looked at the view up towards the sun and thought I should try to get a picture. But, not thinking much about it, I got an extremely underexposed picture. Oh well.

So I tried to get a b&w picture from the useless colour one. Using different colour layers and a little local contrast adjustment, I got this. It's better than the colour picture but it has some pretty extreme tonal compression. It looks like I just ran a normal picture through an HDR algorithm. I didn't.

But I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of picture. If it were a pencil sketch or a painting, I'd really like it. Or even if I'd printed it from a negative, I'd like it. But, as a digital photographic image, it just looks over the top.

Oh well.