HDR still lifes

Shot for a shop's advertising glossies, 7D, EFs 17-55, Dynamic Photo HDR

very nice work !!!
i like the composition and the colour reconstruction and balance

REALLY nice!. I want to reach in and feel fabric in the first one.

nice composition, perfect toning!
Really like them.

They are nice and rich with detail and color. My only critique would be that, for images 1 and 3, where there are elements in the foreground that are the visual focus, you either need to shoot with less DOF to blur but not obliterate the strong background detail, or maybe darken the edges (like a vignette) slightly to focus attention on the foreground elements. The preservation of all of that contrast and detail throughout the image deemphasizes the subject and makes for distraction. The first image sort of has this DOF blur emerging, but not enough. The second has a large DOF that gets a little distracting, especially with the bright spotlights shining down the wall - if your HDR sequence has data for those regions, hopefully you can compress it a little and tone down those hot spots. The cool thing about HDR is, with all of that data, you should be able to relight the scene however you choose and then tonemap the results into a form you can polish.

But I am being very nit picky.

Nice work.

FYI - you posted your images with aRGB profiles embedded, which may cause the colors to wash out on non-managed browsers, etc.

Kirk

I really like the first and third. They almost appear 3 dimensional. I think the second is slightly too oversaturated. Nice work on all.

Thanks all for the feedback, and suggestions about the images focal point. I've got some experimenting to do now.