My first HDR

zoinkz

Here is my first attempt at an HDR image. CC Please?:dunno

DaddyO

Think it came out nice. Very natural looking. Composition nice too.

bakerphotography

Very nice! What did you use to process it if I might ask (application / number of exposures)

Jack'll do

This image has a lot of potential but looks a little flat and washed out. I always find that tonemapped HDR's can benefit from a little tweaking in PS. I took the liberty of sharpening it a little using high pass filter, then adding a bit more contrast with a brightness/contrast adjustment layer (hope you don't mind). Took about 30 seconds. If it was mine I'd have spent more time on it but just wanted to give you some ideas to play with.

zoinkz

bakerphotography wrote:

Very nice! What did you use to process it if I might ask (application / number of exposures)

I used PhotoMatrix Pro with 3 exposures. My image was straight out of Photo Matrix. As you can see Jack'll really tweaked it up and made it look a lot better.

Thanks for the Tips I will give that a try for myself. I really appreciate your time Jack'll.

Bryan

Jack'll do

zoinkz wrote:

I used PhotoMatrix Pro with 3 exposures. My image was straight out of Photo Matrix. As you can see Jack'll really tweaked it up and made it look a lot better.

Thanks for the Tips I will give that a try for myself. I really appreciate your time Jack'll.

Bryan

Hi Bryan
I use PMP also to create the HDR image and to tone map it. But I always find the result can be improved by mucking around with it a bit in Photoshop. Which tone map technique did you use? Tone Compressor or Detail Enhancer? I usually find that Tone Comp. gives a more natural result.

zoinkz

Ok to be honest I am not sure. I am going to try a couple more this week end I will pay attention. Last time I just followed the prompts and did what it ask me to do.

Jack'll do

zoinkz wrote:

Ok to be honest I am not sure. I am going to try a couple more this week end I will pay attention. Last time I just followed the prompts and did what it ask me to do.

I found it helpful to download and print out the user manual from the help menu in PMP. It explains what all the sliders do. Keep at it. My first attempts were not very good.