Critique my first HDR

Dave Clee

Well as the title says this is my first jump into HDR..Was out early this morning and took a few exposures of this bridge..

Feel free to say the good bad and the ugly...

devbobo

Dave,

This hdr looks really good to me

It doesn't have the fake haloed effect that you see on the majority of hdrs you see. I would be interested in seeing a single exposure to see how much additional dynamic range that you achieved.

I really love the bold red against the muted blue hues, it really works for me.

Nice work.

David

Dave Clee

Thanks man, I have to say I was pretty happy with it when I seen the result..Honestly I didnt even know what an HDR was until I saw your coastal shot and the fact that you used Photomatrix to process it..That started me reading up on HDR and what it can do in these kind of shots..

So pretty much just followed along, banged off a few exposures and let PM do its thing..

Stay tuned and I will link up an exposure for you...

Cheers

Dave

devbobo wrote:

Dave,

This hdr looks really good to me

It doesn't have the fake haloed effect that you see on the majority of hdrs you see. I would be interested in seeing a single exposure to see how much additional dynamic range that you achieved.

I really love the bold red against the muted blue hues, it really works for me.

Nice work.

David

Dave Clee

Here you go man, I used 3 exposures total for the final shot, as I wasnt sure how many to take...But I'll definitely be playing around more with this technique in the near future..Now obviously there was also some PS work done on the final image..saturation etc..I noticed that photomatrix had those options but I decided to use PS instead on the final tone mapped image

Moni

I love the icy atmosphere that you got in the final compilation. The foggyness doesn't show thru enough in the original you posted.
The blue is a really good contrast with the red pop of the bridge.

Skippy

Dave Clee wrote:

Well as the title says this is my first jump into HDR..Was out early this morning and took a few exposures of this bridge..

Feel free to say the good bad and the ugly...

Beautiful Dave as Devbobo said, it does not look fake at all.

Lovely scene, the colours look great.
Added some nice light the trees on the shore on the left hand side too.

You should be be very pleased with this shot Dave :ivar
... Skippy
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Dave Clee

Thanks man, its pretty clear to me now the potential of HDR. This is one of my favourite locations but I have always struggled to get the right exposure b/c of the lighting there.

I'll post up a few others from yesterday morning when I get them done.

Cheers

Dave

Skippy wrote:

Beautiful Dave as Devbobo said, it does not look fake at all.

Lovely scene, the colours look great.
Added some nice light the trees on the shore on the left hand side too.

You should be be very pleased with this shot Dave :ivar
... Skippy
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Chrissiebeez_NL

looks very good!

devbobo

Dave,

Looking at this again, the sand in the foreground over the bridge reflection is a bit distracting to me. It catches my eye instead of the bridge leading me into the photo. That area appears substantially brighter and more defined than the rocks under the water to left.

I would probably apply curves locally to that area to make it a bit darker.

Apart from that I totally love it, a wall hanger for sure.

Cheers,

David

schmoo

Dave, what a wonderful use of HDR! Your processed image really does pop and I have to say that I am of the opposite mind re: the sand in the foreground. While devbobo finds it distracting, before I scrolled down and saw his comment I was going to say that that's my favorite part of the image. The bridge is bright and beautiful and by color alone demands our attention but I love when water has both clear and reflective properties in the same shot. I think being able to see down through the water to get a glimpse of the warm yellow sand makes the scene look even colder, in a way.

Seeing down to that sand was to me like looking through a block of ice. Shivers!

Just goes to show that there's no accounting for (my) taste.

Anyway, !

W.W. Webster

Dave Clee wrote:

Feel free to say the good bad and the ugly...

Can't fault it!