does this look like an 'HDR image' to you?

[GeX]

 

[GeX]

whoever that is using the tripod is showing how not to use one though

if you look at what the tripod is on, it wouldnt have been possible to extend the legs further

 

[GeX]

ok, cheers for the views.

how do you define the HDR process. Feeding a few differently exposed images into photomatrix and then tone mapping it? Is Lightroom capable of doing HDR?

 

[GeX]

ok, so given that this is the basic jpg off the camera (i shoot RAW + Basic JPG)

and the one i first posted hasn't been touched outside of Lightroom, still HDR?

 

[GeX]

i wasn't trying to create an HDR effect there though.. if you can look at it and see that then there is too much done!

pretty much all i did was drop the exposure (its already shot under by 0.7 i think) until the sky looked right and then boosted the mid tones to bring the foreground back.

 

[GeX]

the photo you have posted origionally does not really call for any HDR, the origional .jpg looks slightly over exposed, getting the right exposure would make the shot, rather than trying hdr

it's why i've not tried it, just tried to get the exposure right in lightroom - which in doing so i lost the foreground.

 

[GeX]

i dropped my sigma 10-20 in my breakfast and got cocopops on the insde of the outer element

 

[GeX]

shhh, and yes its where this one was shot

 

[GeX]

because i was photographing what i could see, and that's what i could see.

 

[GeX]

thats kinda what i did!! i've not done any sort of HDR process on it, that was my point - it looks a bit HDR'd.. but it isn't. I use only lightroom for most of my processing!

 

[GeX]

that would probably be a better way of doing it, but when ive tried stuff like that before it hasnt come out how i like.. so for now i'm just sticking with lightroom. an ND grad filter would be handy.. but i dont have one at the mo!