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used my lake District pictures as a source
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My first attempt at HDR
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thanks for the feedback guys - I agree with pretty much everything said, and will have another play today.
I used photomatrix and using raw files you can set it to batch bracket from a single file, so you don't reallt have to do anything, it's all automatic
It's very tempting to overkill images, especially the sky, which if your not carefull can look too dark and kills the effect.
I also agree that some do look "overcooked" - TBH i prefer the first as it's more subtle and natural looking, wheras the saturation is a bit too high in some of the others I think.
UPDATE:
Have tweaked the first - looking better?
I used photomatrix and using raw files you can set it to batch bracket from a single file, so you don't reallt have to do anything, it's all automatic
It's very tempting to overkill images, especially the sky, which if your not carefull can look too dark and kills the effect.
I also agree that some do look "overcooked" - TBH i prefer the first as it's more subtle and natural looking, wheras the saturation is a bit too high in some of the others I think.
UPDATE:
Have tweaked the first - looking better?
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DizMatt said:
yes pretty much - TBH i haven't tried using CS2 for HDR since Photomatix is so easy. If you take the image in RAW, it will auto-bracket it for you and do all the merging, then you can adjust the final look in Toning. It's very useful in images where the sky is burn-out due to tricky lighting on overcast days