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try working on those halos surrounding the sky and objects..... thats the hardest thing to get clean..... i usually try to match the color and fill it in so its not noticeable
the last one is pretty cool looking.
i posted some earlier, they are towards the bottom of the thread, using nikon capture nx2 and the eye dropper i carefully blend away the halos
These are fun. Along with the suggestions about reducing halos, I think some Photoshop curves adjustments would give them some extra pop. Most HDRs require post-processing because the tone mapping process compresses everything into the mid tones.
yes, it's Lowell Ma, great place to photograph. I have used lightroom in the past, not happy with the results, have been using photoshop exclusively. thanks for the suggestions...happy holidays...
In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to represent more accurately the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.
Or to put it differently, HDR isn't meant to go beyond (too far anyway) what they eye see, but simply more accurately portray the amount of light and detail the human eye can take in.
The puropse of this kind of processing is to increase dynamic range and show the viewer a closer representation of what the human eye actually saw at the time of capture.
HDR is very easy to overdo which can make pictures look like water coloring, unnatural or cartoonish IMO - not what the human eye saw at all. Unless of course one likes that look. I actually prefer doing manual blending in Photoshop for more precise control of color, contrast, shadows, highlights, halos, saturation, etc... Here are a few manual blend examples:
Here is a tutorial on the manual approach which a pro landscape photographer friend of mine uses and I find works well. I know it seems like more work. So ppl will continue to use the many automatic tools out there. But once these manual skills are learned it is really not that difficult. And the results surpass automated results because of the full control one has over the process:
Wow - there are some great images here! I have just begun playing with HDR and it is a bit difficult to get the right effect with Photomatrix. Am looking forward to a class on using Photoshop to get better results. Sometimes, though, it is fun to use the different automated output images from Photomatrix.
MtnSurfer - thanks for the tutorial!
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