First HDR - How'd I do?

du8die

Went to Laurel Falls today outside Gatlinburg, TN. On the trail, I ran into this charming little "falls" and decided to use it as my first HDR experiment. I really have no idea of what I'm doing, but wanted to give it a go. How'd I do?



Thanks,
d8

craig_d

It doesn't really look like HDR; I wouldn't have known if you hadn't said it was. In that sense I would say it may be a success, because I usually hate pictures that scream, "Look at me! I'm cool because I'm HDR!"

If the dynamic range of the scene was such that the original exposures all have either a murky foreground or a badly blown-out sky in the background (here it looks just overcast rather than blown-out), then I'd say your use of HDR has quite effectively worked around both of those problems.