Interior architecture / HDR

Shooting this morning for a salon that needed images for a website, after a major remodel. Shot on a 5d with 14mm f/2.8L (custom white balance), I made my first real attempt at HDR. I've never had much use for it, until now.

Post processed the 3 shots AEB 1.7 stops apart from each other in CS3's HDR Merge Pro application, then tweaked further in Topaz. I'm not after the art effect of HDR, I'm after the best possible images to represent the salon.

I like the colors a lot (Especially the wood floor richness.), but at first, the whole image seems out of focus. (To me at least.)
Only then do I realize the first chair is in more focus then what seems to be anything else.

Maybe I'm just used at look at a center of an image first but this is how I interpret it.

Nonetheless though, this is a good shot.

PP looks good to me, maybe a tad more black? Not sure what tone the chair leather should have but it might help it pop a bit more. Any way, good work!

Alex

are you SURE you have the 3 shots with the same aperture?

ccc_javier wrote in post #12119868
are you SURE you have the 3 shots with the same aperture?

Unless Aperture Priority mode on my camera stopped working, I set the camera to f/14 and took the 3 photos.

Rather than HDR or just HDR, have you tried Focus Stacking to get that nice sharp focus all the way?

I think the perspective angle is odd. It shows the maximum distortion possible. Just looking at the wall cabinets.
The colors are a bit on the warm side although I like the HDR pp being very discrete.