Old English Car - HDR Efex Pro

3 TIFFs into HDR Efex Pro.
Turns out the only range not within the "0" exposure was the small piece of sky in the upper most corner....hardly worth it!
Nevertheless, I was more interested in what the fence textures and car paint/chrome would look like in the process.

I'm a sucker for an old english car.

Nice Morris Minor

Looks like a nice clean merge. My only nitpick is the image seems a bit too bright to me. Have you tried to pull down the mid tones using a curves adjustment?

Good job of keeping yourself out of any reflections too.

The fence detail is great, the car is a little bright for my liking, would have done a darker 4th step to darken it all together.

What is the car to the left of you? I was trying to figure it out via reflection!

natums wrote in post #11780982
The fence detail is great, the car is a little bright for my liking, would have done a darker 4th step to darken it all together.

What is the car to the left of you? I was trying to figure it out via reflection!

Looks very much like another Morris minor?? Perhaps it was a morris car club meet??

Really nice job with the processing!

Very nice. I am a fan.

Thanks for the comments and for the car identification (Austin or Morris was my guess...I know nothing).
As far as being too bright, I brought it down a bit but didn't like it as well.....too dark and introduced too many blacks even with just the mids adjusted.

natums - I was processing for the fence textures almost as much as I was going for the car. Sorry I don't know the one next to it. It was a car show - not just Morris.
I assume by a 4th step you mean another underexposed image? I don't agree that this would darken it as the scene is not a wide range and was easily handled by 2 exp step - no clipping appeared. Unless you are including the sun in an outdoor photo, 3 shots are enough 99%. Regardless, I would have still post processed the tonemapped image the way you see it.
My criteria is - expose it enough so that I can just make out the tire from the well - my own rule.
Again, thanks for comments.

Ic. I guess it is personal preference, I see a lot of the color on the car when reflecting the sky as overexposed for an HDR, practically solid white.

Looks so clean great pp.

Thanks Joey - and it was VERY clean and shiny for display.
natums - I thought you were talking about the whole image thus my comment about the tires (shadows). I guess we will have to agree to disagree on what overexposure is. I did check all my histograms and there is no clipping in the whites. I also think that the strong white reflections (and blue of the sky for that matter) are true.
I do agree that the processing is quite contrasty but this I wanted . FWIW here is a small comparison.

Nice work! Glad to see you're from Ontario

Hi essjay8....I have posted a few from Merrickville show....still have lots to edit and post.
There are a few of us from around Eastern Ont.....like Max Powers (post above )

Everything looks great except the car itself. The high-contrast reflections take away from the car to the point that they are distracting. If you took the car from the Photomatix version and laid it over the As Posted version, I think it would look perfect.

But, of course, you are the photographer, and it is your work.