Hyde Bridge

[JeffSmith]

Just playing around with Photomatix Pro3

Tonemapping... you either love it or you hate it.


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[bubbabyte]

I like the picture, I like the composition. This is not a personal insult, so please don't take it as such, but how can you not see anything wrong with that edit? I'm aware you're probably new to HDR and you're experimenting but it looks as though you took your picture, which was good, and dipped it into some radiological waste. Everything in the picture is now glowing as if it's radioactive. It's a common problem people have when they are getting used to HDR photography, so what i'm saying is just criticism, nothing more.

[JeffSmith]

I agree with you 100%! This is what I usually see when people post HDR and for me, it moves out of the bounds of photography and into the realms of art.

I am new to HDR and I tried to use it for a neutral result and some people didn't like it because it didn't look like this.

Here's the thread with what I prefer as HDR:
Very high contrast HDR