Blue Whale at Museum of Natural History NYC

HDR of the blue whale. One of the most impressive exhibits. It hangs entirely from the ceiling at the Museum.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/prodigy83/63954​93547/

Looking at the lighting conditions and seeing theres little ghosting on the people, i'd guess this was done out of a single file ( feel free to prove me wrong, im just guessing here ), ran through a HDR plugin or a program and left it at that. This doesnt quite qualify for a HDR im afraid.

Small tip, when you've done the hdr merge and tone mapping, its usually a good idea to take the picture into photoshop or similar for some additional tweaks like potential levels adjustments, tone corrections, resizing and sharpening.

This particular image feels as if you stopped working on it half way through the process. It doesnt feel very sharp and seems to lack contrast since there doesnt seem to be any true blacks present.

Hand held three shot bracket through HDR merge in photoshop CS5. If you have used CS5 merge to HDR you would notice it has a remove ghost option. At minimum I had to shoot hand held at 3200 ISO to have any sort of shutter speed. I could provide image files as well.

Also, zero tone mapping was done. I would state if I had tone mapped. It was run through tweaks as well including noise reduction, levels, and selective sharpening. A lot of assumptions on your end. I appreciate the feedback and I'll see what I can gather through it.

Have another drink, Omar!

Just had some jack and coke

Every time I come to this part of the museum, I can never get a shot of it. It's too dark in there!

I'm surprised I was even able to get something handheld in there!

Nice. For an iPhone pic.