Wallingford CT. Fine Dining HDR

[zacker]

lol...

http://www.brokenfencephotography.com/photos/222857837_aUtDR-L.jpg

http://www.brokenfencephotography.com/photos/253260974_wYgcJ-L.jpg

[canonloader]

Very radical HDR's and I love them. I'd like to know how you went this far without getting the halos though. :)

Any chance you saved the xmp files to share?

[zacker]

XMP files?? lol i have no clue even what they are? lol

Any how... for Halos i have a very special and complicated fix.. its so complicated its hard to explain it... i use a very little known function in Photoshop.... the clone tool...lol,lol,lol.. yep, I just clone em away..no more Halo.. it works great at about 98% of the time, and if for some reason it doesnt, if i still think the shot is good enough, i still save it, but if the shot wasnt that nice to begin with, i dump it.. yeah so just use a soft edge brush and clone away.

Thanks!!

[canonloader]

In the tone mapping window, at the bottom of the sliders, the drop down that says Presets, has an option to "Save Settings" and "Load Settings". If you save it, it goes into the Presets folder in the Photomatix installation on the hard drive. From there, you can share them with others and they can put them in the Presets folder and load them to try your settings. A great way to learn how to use this program. Much faster than trying to experiment with sliders for a year or two. ;)

I will now try the clone on the halos. LOL

[zacker]

ok cool... i never knew that, I am definetly a slider pusher..lol

clone away, clone away... lol

[Avi]

nice...I like both of them..

Thanks for sharing

Avi

[Oneslowz28]

These are near perfect. Great job.

[CameraBuff]

Love that look!

[ArcticShooter]

Amazing technique :)

[zacker]

thanks guys.. they say "only use HDR for when the tonal range is more than you camera can capture" i say, use it whenever you want.. i cant imagine how boring and flat the first shot would be with out the hdr.. i gotta dig up the "0" exposure and do a straight edit of it to see..

[3Honu]

Outstanding work my friend.

[zacker]

thanks OC!

[TheReal7]

Extreme HDR but it works and I love the first pic. Looks like painting!

[zacker]

Thanks Real7!!

[crimsonblack]

these look awesome. Nice work ... book worthy work.

[dmccabe]

I like everything but the skies. They look too stormy.

Since you are good with fixing halos with the clone tool, try cloning back in a more "original no-HDR" sky, and see how it looks.

Many HDR images look fine except the sky. When do you ever see black edges on clouds -- except for in hurricanes?

[007]

interesting subject matter

[R1200GS]

XMP files?? lol i have no clue even what they are? lol

Any how... for Halos i have a very special and complicated fix.. its so complicated its hard to explain it... i use a very little known function in Photoshop.... the clone tool...lol,lol,lol.. yep, I just clone em away..no more Halo.. it works great at about 98% of the time, and if for some reason it doesnt, if i still think the shot is good enough, i still save it, but if the shot wasnt that nice to begin with, i dump it.. yeah so just use a soft edge brush and clone away.

Thanks!!

So you cloned between and around all the branches? Yikes. Super cool images BTW.