HDR of Church in Bergamo, Italy

jasonstone

Just playing around with HDR - these 2 were both hand held at VERY low shutter speeds - and came out ok - just playing around with different tone mapping - one more extreme than the other

Think I don't like the extreme tone mapping - it's too... well i dunno - visually striking yes but just a bit of a one off shot without any depth :dunno





You can see the full sizes here

Cheers, Jase
p.s. the portrait one - the 2nd one - is more processed/tone mapped

RGB Pro

Nice!
Nice work man! What do you do for HDR, exposure compensation? 1 shot, 2, 3 (or more)? That last photo is great looks like an illustration.

jasonstone

Just took a look at the EXIF for the images - there were 3 of them -2/0/+2 exposure

ISO400, 18mm, f8, -2=1/20s / 0=1/5s - +2=10/13s

Hand held as I said

Processing is just merging the 3 RAW files in photomatix pro and then tone mapping

post processing of the tone mapped photo in Lightroom

thanks for the nice comment

Travis

Excellent job, particularly that you were handholding. The last image may be a little strong but the first just brushes up against that barrier of being realistic vs over-top-surreal.

jasonstone

Travis wrote:

Excellent job, particularly that you were handholding. The last image may be a little strong but the first just brushes up against that barrier of being realistic vs over-top-surreal.

Thanks I agree on the 2nd one - I posted it as it's not wrong per se - but I'm not entirely convinced I like it.

It's a tough nut to crack the HDR that doesn't look like a HDR

Travis

jasonstone wrote:

Thanks I agree on the 2nd one - I posted it as it's not wrong per se - but I'm not entirely convinced I like it.

It's a tough nut to crack the HDR that doesn't look like a HDR

I didn't mean to imply "wrong". I like some of the surreal effects that are achieved with HDR. I didn't know if that was what you were intending or not. I like the image as is.

jasonstone

Travis wrote:

I didn't mean to imply "wrong". I like some of the surreal effects that are achieved with HDR. I didn't know if that was what you were intending or not. I like the image as is.

Don't worry - that was me commenting about my work - not your feedback
I don't want to go down the track of creating totally unrealistic HDRs - but it's tough to recognise the boundaries sometimes

I tried to reprocess the first one again and made it look worse! it seems that once you're involving several programs or steps what you do at the start can be compounded by a simple change later in the process

It's all a learning experience and hell if I look at the photos where I just took one frame they look like rubbish as you just can't see the detail all around in the church

Thinking about your comment I might try and re-tone map the 2nd one and go REALLY way over the top and see if that makes it even better

Cheers, Jase