first crack at HDR . . . what do you think?

[extraducksauce]

[EDITED: resized images + PS out sign]

First off this was shot on a pretty windy day, so there's some significant ghosting in the front hedges. second, i shot this off a trashcan lid, as i've yet to purchase a tripod. haahaaa. third, and most importantly, i wanted to make this a natural looking HDR, not that fantasy-overthetop-pp-crap.

here we go:
f4 :: iso200 :: 1/460 :: EV0
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3954/img0663e.jpg

EV-1
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8787/img0664h.jpg

EV+1
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5624/img0665x.jpg

blended [photomatix pro]
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6480/img066345b.jpg

what do think? suggestions?

[imahawki]

Not bad. I personally would clone out the sign. It should be easy to do with how scrubby the brush around it is.

Also the entire frame seems like its tilted right to left.

[nphsbuckeye]

Resizing would be nice to a) comply with forum rules and b) so we can see the whole picture at a time...

[Randall n LV]

Please resize, looks good where is that located Utah?

[Jonrobinson]

Looks nice. Much better than my first HDR attempt.

Jonrobinson

[Scooter49]

I think the bottom one looks terrific in terms of the detail of the mountain, the sky, etc. A resize, straighten, and clone out of the sign would add to it.
It really is a great photo (imhyo).
Scooter

[boki-san]

the parts of the multiple images out of register kill it.

get a tripod, and forget about HDR.

... where is that located Utah?

looks like garden of the gods, ... coloraudi

[Jakpro]

Very good and natural looking.

It really brought out the clouds and the foliage.

[Paul Li]

Nice job.

[extraducksauce]

Please resize, looks good where is that located Utah?


colorado springs: garden of the gods

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_gods)

[extraducksauce]

Not bad. I personally would clone out the sign.

... clone out of the sign would add to it.
Scooter



yeah, i was thinking the same thing. see post 1 for the update.

[extraducksauce]

thanks for the complements.

[imahawki]

I like it better.

[perfeng702]

i like it.

[Yapo]

it looks pretty good! what program did u use for it? i tried out HDR with a program called "Qtpfsgui" awhile ago but the pic would get glitchy with random patches of grey if i used 3 pics but worked when i used 2 and it also would crash half the time i tried to save.

[extraducksauce]

it looks pretty good! what program did u use for it? i tried out HDR with a program called "Qtpfsgui" awhile ago but the pic would get glitchy with random patches of grey if i used 3 pics but worked when i used 2 and it also would crash half the time i tried to save.

Photomatix Pro 3.1.3 (http://www.hdrsoft.com/download.html#pmp). killer program. specifically, i use the lightroom 2 plugin for the final pp.

[marcus769]

I think that looks great for your first attempt.. I to used Qtpfsgui my first time and was not getting it to work near its potential... I gave up after an hour!