First go at HDR. Welsh scenery.

Hi all,

Not much shooting lately, so I've been sorting through old stuff and messing around with hdr software.
Not really sure what I'm doing yet but I quite liked the results.
Thanks for viewing and any comments.

1 Original image just tweaked a bit in Zoombrowser

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Nice work. Lovely location. Good to see the HDR not too overdone.

Thanks mullkv, I appreciate your comment.

I was impressed with how using the different exposures the detail in the clouds were brought back.

Where was it taken? I'm actually Welsh but from South Wales.... looks like somewhere I'd like to visit.

I'm not 100% bit I think its the bottom end of llanberis.

Excellent image!

The HDR image came out great! Did you use photoshop to merge these exposures? I've experienced that photoshop does a lot better job of making images realistic then photomatix! Nice work!

Looks nice Phil. I like the scene.

Thanks Serrator.

Thanks for the comment. I used 1 raw file and altered the exposure before saving 5 tiff images then used Dynamic-photo to create the image.

Thanks Mitch.

Thanks

Great Shot! Did not overdone like other HDR pic.

Beautiful!

Nuff said...

If you are using one image, you are not gaining ANY dynamic range from doing HDR, which is the whole point...to expand the dynamic range past what can be captured in one shot...

If you gave me the RAW file you used, I could do the exact same thing without a super long, involved HDR process.

Regardless of how you achieved it, it IS a very beautiful image. Well done on the shot, not the process, as I am sure you wasted time.

Well I tried and the point is I could definitely bring back the details in the clouds from the JPEG. I couldnt quite match your color. However, if I had he RAW file there is no doubt that you could get back all that highlight detail without use of HDR. Sorry it is a bit washed, my color profiles are screwed. With the RAW file just bring down the exposure, use recovery, and kick up the fill light a little. That should do pretty much what HDR did for you in this case.

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Nice job! What an improvement in the sky. It doesn't even look like HDR to me.

Thanks Chris.

Cheers Jeff.