In the new part of the city Den Haag, Holland. If you love modern architecture then this is a nice place to be.
TECH-INFO: If I would say I took one RAW, used some exposure recovery and enhanced contrast and colors a bit using the curves and selective color tools, then you would believe me because it could be very possible. But as many of many images I took 5 JPGs hand held, used DxO for lens corrections (to make the straight lines straight), aligned and merged them into a HDR file using Photoshop, tone mapped it in Photomatrix to get a very natural result and finally finished it in Photoshop (curves and color selective tool). In fact the end result looks very very similar as my middle exposure JPG, except there are no blocked shadows or blown out areas and the contrast is a bit higher. So I can say I succeeded in making a natural looking tone mapped HDR image :-) Feel free to give critics.
The Red Pyramid Building
In the new part of the city Den Haag, Holland. If you love modern architecture then this is a nice place to be.
TECH-INFO: If I would say I took one RAW, used some exposure recovery and enhanced contrast and colors a bit using the curves and selective color tools, then you would believe me because it could be very possible. But as many of many images I took 5 JPGs hand held, used DxO for lens corrections (to make the straight lines straight), aligned and merged them into a HDR file using Photoshop, tone mapped it in Photomatrix to get a very natural result and finally finished it in Photoshop (curves and color selective tool). In fact the end result looks very very similar as my middle exposure JPG, except there are no blocked shadows or blown out areas and the contrast is a bit higher. So I can say I succeeded in making a natural looking tone mapped HDR image :-) Feel free to give critics.
Have to agree Paul, excellent details in this fascinating architecture and it is enhanced perfectly. HDR is great for such images. One can have a natural looking image with great contrasts and details. The other nice thing is, if you feel in the creative mood you can create some surreal images with HDR too! HDR is just another form of visual expression.
LightningPaul: Many thanks John. I mainly use HDR techniques for covering too high contrasts, detail enhancement and to make it looking more edgy (so balancing between real and surreal). I'm also waiting for the HDR television to watch my HDR files