Some Dutch landscapes in HDR

alexL

Hi all
I was in Holland around New Year and it was pretty dull and foggy but also some exciting light late in the day. It alway difficult to get those sunrays, so i tried some HDR. These are handheld and you can see taht at a close look. But I think they are nice enough to show and to show what can be done by expirimenting with HDR.





It is always a fine balance between getting the impression and not becoming to atrifical.
Hope you like them, C&C welcome
/Alex

Awais Yaqub

Loved the 1st a lot beautiful

coscorrosa

Handheld HDR!? You're obviously more talented than me!

I think you've hit the balance just right, they don't appear (to me) to be artificial. Then again, i have an irrational affinty for saturated photos.

Well done!

schmoo

Alex, these are great! They look very real, meaning the balance between foreground and bg is quite good. I LOVE those sunbeams.

zacker

very nice... using Photomatix? I LOOOOOVE shooting HDR and I LOOOVE to make my photos look fake and cartoonish... its what I like..lol but these are great! love em!

Chrissiebeez_NL

alexL wrote:

Hi all
I was in Holland around New Year and it was pretty dull and foggy

hahaha i could have told you that before you went

the shots look nice in that the HDR doesnt look too fake. like number 3 and 4, the composition is nice in there, the other ones dont do it composition wise for me..

swintonphoto

Lovely colors and compositions. My favorite is the 1st one - excellent lines and framing.

BenA2

Nice HDRs
These are some really nice HDRs. #1 and #3 are my favorites.

You give HDR a good name.

alexL

Hi thanks for the nice comments

Chrissiebeez_NL: yeah I know, I used to live there until about 12 years ago

zacker: yes I used the beta of Photmatix3.0. It has a very much improved align feature. I tried my new D300 this weekend and shooting a series of 5 or 7 at high speed (6 FPS) combined with the new Photomatix makes handheld HDR very possible, tripod is of course best but .....you know
/Alex

zacker

Alex, have you tried the free version of Dynamic Photo HDR yet? if not, I suggest you do, its really good...its just different, alot different than PM!

300m

Nice job! I was on the road when this posted. I like 1&4 of the group. Hand held too, very good, better than me!! I use Photomax myself now, tried PS but the results were flat.