Shelby

3 RAW, -2, 0, +2, tonemapped in Photomatix twice - once for sky, once for foreground. Hand-blended in Photoshop. Much tweaking.

The amount of work you have put in has paid off the image looks great.

I wished my HDR came out this good.

Did you merge the images from raw files or did you convert to jpg then merge ?

I did read an article yesterday suggesting HDR images are better merged from jpg as opposed to raw, as the conversion raw to jpg is done better by hand.

Ed

I ran Photomatix against 3 raw files. In Photomatix, I tone-mapped twice - once fort he sky, and once for the foreground.

From everything I've read, HDR from raw files is better, since raw files contain more range than 16-bit TIFF, let alone 8-bit JPG.

Thanks for the comments.

Nice. Nice.
Blending multiple tonemaps really is the ticket for a natural look.
You have it down.

Scottes wrote in post #8431947
I ran Photomatix against 3 raw files. In Photomatix, I tone-mapped twice - once fort he sky, and once for the foreground.

From everything I've read, HDR from raw files is better, since raw files contain more range than 16-bit TIFF, let alone 8-bit JPG.

Thanks for the comments.

I have been thinking about this for the past few days now and decided I will continue to merge in raw for the reasons you state.

Ed

Scottes wrote in post #8428134
Given the amount of work this took, I really need to explore some other HDR programs to see if any give a better realistic look.

I think it's a bit overdone, in that there's not enough shadows left: The car appears to be hovering...
Also, if the sky is this dark, the reflex in the hood should probably also be a bit darker.

Apart from that it looks quite realistic.

Good eye René.

The sun was behind me, almost directly. Note the shadow under the car on the left. So there were no shadows around the Shelby, even in the correctly exposed shot.

However, I certainly do agree that the car looks like it's hovering. I won't shoot at this angle again.
I'll probably continue to shoot with the sun directly behind me, though. I still haven't been able to learn that one.


Quality comment on the roof, though. I definitely have to suck it up and agree on that one.


Funny thing is that I usually notice things like this - checking shadows and reflections is a key point of "Photoshop Forensics".

Very nice Shelby there.

I think this could have been done in one shot and had more dynamic range. If you want shoot me the 3 and i can try running them through.

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