HDR Pic (Experiment) of Gironde Monument @ Bordeaux

Rob200sx · 15 Aug 2006 at 22:06

Have been playing around with a few photo's after a trip to France at the Weekend. Was playing about in photomatix and came up with this:

-TA- · 15 Aug 2006 at 22:10

fringing at the bottom is horrific! :eek:

DannyDan · 15 Aug 2006 at 22:45

Was it made from a RAW file? It looks noisy to me in parts.

The general theme of the picture is nice though

xyphic · 15 Aug 2006 at 22:59

The fountain bit looks good, but the top third of the image just seems too flat to me. Still, better than anything I've managed to come up with HDR wise!

themask70 · 16 Aug 2006 at 02:12

That looks so wierd, really different, but i like it. Although i think the background does spoil it a bit.

Rob200sx · 16 Aug 2006 at 06:52

Yep, the tone mapping sent the skyline a bit ....off kilter. The fringing I think is a combination of my camera (fuji s5000) and the 3 images being ever so slightly out of alignment (it was shot using the 3 shot sequential mode). It wasn't shot in Raw, just the usual way

Rob200sx · 16 Aug 2006 at 07:09

This one came out slightly better.

Rob200sx · 16 Aug 2006 at 07:21

and this one on the previous side of the monument again, from a different angle though. Some slight noise despite using noiseware to remove the majority of it post tone mapping.

titchard · 16 Aug 2006 at 12:30

What camera / lens did you use?

Seems to be some vigenetting on the top right and left.

rich

alexakasloth · 16 Aug 2006 at 13:43

The first one seems a bit 'off' to me, i'm not sure how to describe it. It's like it's not as clean cut as it could be.

I like the last one though, the greens are very vibrant and the water reminds me of lightening.

DannyDan · 16 Aug 2006 at 14:06

The later 2 you posted are very good, I like them

yer_averagejoe · 17 Aug 2006 at 12:44

Probably a cheap lens.

chromatic aberration galore.

blade007 · 17 Aug 2006 at 13:16

seem to look a bit false ... can't quite put a word on it

Rob200sx · 17 Aug 2006 at 17:29

It's the standard lens that the s5000 uses and thus i'm stuck with, the vignetting etc is also slightly exaggerated from the tone mapping that i used in photomatix. Although I could crop the bottom on the first photo

RichDay · 17 Aug 2006 at 17:39

blade007 said:
seem to look a bit false ... can't quite put a word on it

Lots of hdr stuff does in my opinion, if it's not foggy edges it's ridiculously high contrast or over dark skies. The shots the OP has taken aren't bad but I just don't like the effect.

blade007 · 17 Aug 2006 at 17:50

I got it! They look rendered.

madmaxx · 17 Aug 2006 at 22:12

I like the 2nd one, but youre right Blade, these kind of shots do sometimes have a 'cgi' quality to them! I cant say as I've made my mind up whether I actually like the effect on the whole, but good marks for effort

stu.artd · 18 Aug 2006 at 16:21

Rob200sx said:
and this one on the previous side of the monument again, from a different angle though. Some slight noise despite using noiseware to remove the majority of it post tone mapping.

I really like this one, it's got a surreal look to it and the stone fountain seems to be glowing from the lights in the water.