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Flo wrote in post #6006845
Very Wizard of Oz feel to it! I actually prefered the original size.gave the feeling of wide open spaces.

Glad you got all that sensor dust out

That was my thought exactly! Very well done, in both picture taking and processing. Nice work.

Dave

Hey...no sweat. If nothing, this just proves the subjective nature of art and that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder .

Peace,
Jim

Nice picture.

I am surprised that the edited version looks so different from the original!

The second "normal" picture (the HDR one) amazes me! The difference in color is, I dare say, breathtaking.

What is HDR? How do I do this to my pictures? Do I need a specific program or is it a setting?

Zapins wrote in post #6035440
Nice picture.

I am surprised that the edited version looks so different from the original!

The second "normal" picture (the HDR one) amazes me! The difference in color is, I dare say, breathtaking.

What is HDR? How do I do this to my pictures? Do I need a specific program or is it a setting?

I forget exactly what it stands for but google it....i think it is High Dynamic Range. You take 3-5 bracket photos and combine them on a program like PhotoMatix. Thanks for the compliments

Zapins wrote in post #6035440
Nice picture.

I am surprised that the edited version looks so different from the original!

The second "normal" picture (the HDR one) amazes me! The difference in color is, I dare say, breathtaking.

What is HDR? How do I do this to my pictures? Do I need a specific program or is it a setting?

To expand a little on what BermyFunk said, basically an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image captures colors and tonalities closer to how the human eye sees them (theoretically). The dynamic range that a camera...specifically a digital camera can "see" is actually quite limited, at least compared with the human eye/brain. For example, if you're looking at any given scene with the naked eye, you can usually see everything in that scene from very dark shadow details to details in very bright highlights. With photography however, this is very often a compromise...if you capture good shadow detail, then detail in the highlights are often lost or "blown out". So essentially what you do with HDR is take 3 images (or more) taken from the exact same perspective (usually with the camera mounted on a very solid tripod). One of those images will expose for the shadow detail (and usually over-expose the rest of the image), one image at the "technically correct" exposure so that the mid-tones are correct and one exposure for the highlights (which usually under-exposes the rest of the image). The images are then combined via software into a single image where (again in theory) the full range of the image is properly exposed.

Of course the reason I say that so much of this is "in theory" is that we really don't see that way...at least not all at once. Most people have to let their eyes adjust when going from dark shadow detail to bright highlights...if you're looking at something dark and immediately look at something bright...well...I'm sure you know the effect. So in other words by seeing this way with photography, you usually end up with some rather surreal looking imagery that the human brain doesn't usually perceive .

There is of course more to it than this and there is quite a bit out there on the internet if you do a search on Google, but this should explain things a little better for you.

Peace,
Jim

ya... what he said...

Woah, nice explanation. I definitely understand it a lot better now.

That wraps my question up really nicely in a neat bow.