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The Quay, Dungarvan, Co Waterford
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I think the scene itself if good but the processing IMO is OTT
HDR…There is too much saturation and the HDR had been pushed to far
There are quite alot of halos around the building also
Sorry for being so negative
Did you try and process it with out HDR?Cathal
Thanks for your comments Cathal – I have only being using HDR for the past 3 or 4 weeks and am facinated by the results in most cases. However, I have a habit of oversaturating the images. I definately have a problem with purple fringing and noise in the HDR images. Do you know which software is best for processing HDR? I did try to process it without HDR and was still drawn to the colourful version. I am now so used to looking at my saturated pics that I find the non-HDR versions very bland.
AliceI use Photomatix pro for HDR stuff. Its quite easy to use. and you can get some nice effects without it being too OTT. But the again some people like OTT.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9013751
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8940531
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8362525
These are 3 example of ones that I don’t think are OTT and the next one is pushing the processing a bit more but as I said apart from the halo-ing I still like
it. each to their own I suppose.http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8175511
Thanks for your help Mark. Your photos are fabulous – great clarity, composition and colour. I have to confess though that I love number 4 just as much as the 3 slightly processed shots. But I know what you mean, you can keep processing the shot until you have something cartoonish or have something that is a little different from the non-HDR variety. I will experiment a bit more with the shot above. This is a single raw shot, I processed it firstly in Zoom browser and got 3 shots to combine
-2 0 +2.
AliceThat was the way I used to do it to and they way I did with those shots. I took 1 Raw picture then used PS to end up with 3 images, +1, 0, -1 and used Photomatix Pro to produce a final image. There is also another application out there called Artizen. I used it to get this version of a shot you looked at originally
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8176155
I recently got a Nikon D200 so I have been experimenting with using the bracketing function to get 5 shots +2, +1, 0, -1, -2 and using photomatix on them and this is what I have been coming up with. Bear in mind that I only have the camera 2 weeks :roll:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9024317
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9024316 = B&W version
Hi Alice…
I’d have to agree with what the others said on this one. When I am taking a picture
I would like the finished product to look pretty close to how my eye visualised the
scene. I dont use HDR software but do use grad filters and sometimes combine exposures
to give me an acceptably similar image to what I seen. It helps to take the original
shots at a time when there isnt a very large range of light (crazy bright skys and
dark shadows). Try it and see how you get on. I guarantee you will be a lot happier
with the results.Then again maybe ye just like the HDR look…!!!
Just my thoughts…!
Richie
Alice the image has good potential.
in my experience doing digital photography, less is more!
It is nice to PROCESS the image to give it a boost but not so much that
it is glaringly obvious that you have done it!HDR has its uses and can really boost an image but it can also
make a cartoon out of one too.your image posted has good composition and probably had good
exposure too.I use Photomatix and much prefer to use the exposure blend tool
it doesnt give those nasty halos.the image below was extremely hard to meter, meter for inside and all
of the sky is white, meter outside and the inside is black.
exposure blending here saved me bacon on this one!
Just read back through your original post about the fringing.
I find that if your original image has some fringing present,
when you process it to make a HDR it seems to amplify the fringing and make
it more noticable, that is my experience anyway.it needs to be corrected before you process.
Thanks to you all for your brilliant pointers.
Mark – You did a brilliant job with Artizan on your first shot. You are also really getting great results from your Nikon D200. I love both the colour and B & W versions of the bridge in Dublin.Ritchie – Up to a few weeks ago, I believed that there was nothing like getting a shot right the first time and maybe tweak it a little if necessary. I accidently found out about HDR a few weeks ago and started messing with it. Initially, I went easy with the processing and was actually getting close to what I was looking at but I am after getting a bit carried away with colour. I will try processing in a few different ways to see if I can do better. I will try to use grad filters as well.
Aoluain – Your photo is fab. – very realistic – perfect colour and exposure. – I will watch out for the exposure blend tool in photomatix. I would not have much understanding about metering in general. Thanks for the tips for the purple fringing – it is unsightly and ruins many decent shots.
Alice
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