Tset (Apologies!)

Too heavy with the HDR?

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Oversized image changed to link. POTN Maxc. image size is no more than 1024 pixels/side.

Jon

Over saturated, over sharpened, generally over processed.

It looks as though you've too much noise reduction and then tried to rescue it by increasing the sharpness and saturation.

My view of HDR is to just adjust curves (potentially merging multiple exposures because of noise issues) to get a photo where both details in the highlights and in the shadows can be seen.

But that would basically represent a compression of a large dynamic range into the lesser dynamic range of the monitor or a printer. The above looks the reverse - a magnification of contrast and color saturation. The problem is that it ends up as a very hard image. You definitely get an impact. But more like a sledgehammer. Less is often more. A more subtle image can be very selling by feeling calm and comforting to look at.

Cheers Ramon!

Ramon-uk wrote in post #13650368
Over saturated, over sharpened, generally over processed.

It looks as though you've too much noise reduction and then tried to rescue it by increasing the sharpness and saturation.

Don't remember doing any sharpening on it

Ramon-uk wrote in post #13650368
Over saturated, over sharpened, generally over processed.

It looks as though you've too much noise reduction and then tried to rescue it by increasing the sharpness and saturation.

Thank you for that

pwm2 wrote in post #13650413
My view of HDR is to just adjust curves (potentially merging multiple exposures because of noise issues) to get a photo where both details in the highlights and in the shadows can be seen.

But that would basically represent a compression of a large dynamic range into the lesser dynamic range of the monitor or a printer. The above looks the reverse - a magnification of contrast and color saturation. The problem is that it ends up as a very hard image. You definitely get an impact. But more like a sledgehammer. Less is often more. A more subtle image can be very selling by feeling calm and comforting to look at.

Is this a single-exposure HDR from adjusted RAW?
It looks good to me. I don't think it's overdone.

Thanks Qbx! It's a single exposure - jpg with a little Topaz Labs Adjust 4 pp

Mike

Qbx wrote in post #13656416
Is this a single-exposure HDR from adjusted RAW?
It looks good to me. I don't think it's overdone.

Could you post the original unprocessed shot so that we can see what you've done to it.

Will do - just give me 10 minutes

Ramon-uk wrote in post #13656941
Could you post the original unprocessed shot so that we can see what you've done to it.

Not original file as it came out of the camera but close to the original image

Ramon-uk wrote in post #13656941
Could you post the original unprocessed shot so that we can see what you've done to it.