The challenge to beat the Pro!

[Glayva]

Originally Posted by JeffSmith

Thanks Tony, much appreciated.
I resisted using the term HDR as it covers a miryad of things; usually over-blown artisic effects. I'd prefer to say it's and "Exposure Fusion" or "Exposure Merge" because there's no tone mapping involved.

Stand Corrected - but still a great image!!

[zona5101]

Nice work! Send one to the manager, tell him you'll shoot more if they comp your room & meals

[Photologyst]

Nice shot, but a lot of work.

I typically expose for the exterior/view outside and simply use a flash on the inside with exposure compensation. No fuss, no muss, no HDR, no combining images and a perfect photo of both inside and outside.

Lumico

[elkidogz]

Very nice job on cleaning up and combining the before and after. tfs the originals

[JeffSmith]

No, I didn't tell the manager because I didn't do the PP work until I got home - It's a good thought though, might be worth a free room, eh? But then I'd have to make the beds and frame it better to a get all the angles correct.

As for being a lot of work... it took me about 15 minutes tops and now I know what I'm doing, it would be a lot less the next time.

My aim here was only to learn a new skill to achieve greater tonal balance when I need it for real - this was literally a very quick point and shoot before I went down to the pool for the real hard work of sunbathing

There's a few canal tunnels where I live so I'll be using this skill in those situations.

A million thanks for your comments everyone, very much appreciated

Cheers,

Jeff

[Horizon]

Hi Jeff,
Nice picture and job, you had done. Thanks for sharing the PP details too.

I think your method works perfectly in cases where you have a perfect boundary defined between the areas which needs to be exposed correctly. In this case, the window frames define it. I think it will work equally well in your canal tunnel shots as well. Would love to see the results of those too.

But in other cases where we don't have a defined 'boundary' like in a landscape photo, we may have to follow tone mapping an HDR techniques.

Thanks for sharing.
-Manu.

[JeffSmith]

I agree totally with all that you say, Manu and yes, it was very easy to extract the door frame in this shot
For landscape, however, you might want to use a Graduated Neutral Density filter. Personally, I find the more work you do with the camera and the less in PP, the more natural the final image.

I guess it all really depends on what you want the final image to look like and that's why I was experimenting here with what was a new technique for me.

I try this technique and HDR on the canal tunnels.

[NadeemHussain]

thanx 4 sharing . nice shoot