HDR?

can anyone tell me if I got this HDR thing or am I just way off? C&C welcome

If this is and HDR image, it is well done, b/c its not obviously so. The composition is not a strong one though in my opinion

While I don't care for the subject, you did a great job with the HDR.

kevindar wrote in post #5392169
If this is and HDR image, it is well done, b/c its not obviously so. The composition is not a strong one though in my opinion

thanks, thats what I was going for

Hikin Mike wrote in post #5392171
While I don't care for the subject, you did a great job with the HDR.

yeah I know its not pretty but it brings back fond memorys for me

it doesn't appear to have a dynamic range beyond what a single exposure would be capable of, so I wonder why you'd go to all the effort of merging exposures and compressing tonal range just achieve similar results to a normal low dynamic range image.

Duder wrote in post #5392855
it doesn't appear to have a dynamic range beyond what a single exposure would be capable of, so I wonder why you'd go to all the effort of merging exposures and compressing tonal range just achieve similar results to a normal low dynamic range image.

I guess the sky was blown out in the original?

It looks like good work but it doesn't look entirely natural, as with the majority of HDRs. Some people like this look though so it depends what you're after.

yeah the sky was pretty blown out

i dont kno if anyone else see's it, but when i look at this photo, it just feels like that object in the foreground is just photoshopped in there.. looks really fake in my opinion. im sorry if this is a harsh comment. but thats how it seems to me

yeah it's ok, the reason it looks like that is because I put 2 different exposers on top of each other. One being exposed for the sky and the other for the foreground