Colorado HDR

[johnske]

All well done, but particularly love the imagery in Ouzel Falls, RMNP and the colours plus the unusual perspective of Balloon Launch

[greg1701]

Hotel lobby art in Denver...




Skinny Bus Art



Happy New Year all..
Greg

[greg1701]

D&F Clocktower, Denver...





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[greg1701]

Way up above the clouds...



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[greg1701]

Museum of Contemporary Art rooftop...



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[Zulu109]

Love 'em.

If you don't mind the questions, what software and how many images are you using per image?

[greg1701]

don't mind at all.. after all, this is Digital Photography "School" right?

I've always used Photomatix (their new version is just terrific), and always 3 photos.. I've tried 5 and 7, but unless you are looking out of a window into bright sun, I've never found that the extra shots help out very much at all.. plus my camera will auto take 3 shots, but not 5 or 7.. so I've always leaned that way...

I know Photoshop is supposed to yield more "realistic" hdr shots, but I think mine aren't too "over the top".. just gotta keep that smoothing tool down to 20 percent or so and increase micro-smoothing and you're good to go...

Cheers,
Greg

[Zulu109]

Originally Posted by greg1701

don't mind at all.. after all, this is Digital Photography "School" right?

I've always used Photomatix (their new version is just terrific), and always 3 photos.. I've tried 5 and 7, but unless you are looking out of a window into bright sun, I've never found that the extra shots help out very much at all.. plus my camera will auto take 3 shots, but not 5 or 7.. so I've always leaned that way...

I know Photoshop is supposed to yield more "realistic" hdr shots, but I think mine aren't too "over the top".. just gotta keep that smoothing tool down to 20 percent or so and increase micro-smoothing and you're good to go...

Cheers,
Greg

Thank you. I was curious because the results you are posting are outstanding and at this point, I think my biggest hangup is how many images to use. Best I can figure out is it's trial and error. In the thread I posted last night, I first went with 7 with the caboose and ended up that 3 worked the best. I didn't post the result of the wagon because of the ghosting, but the 7 image result was nice, whereas I took some night shots of a grain elevator a couple of weeks ago and the 7 image result was the best. The 3 image result was very poor. In fact, I think if I added a couple of more images to the elevator, it would be better.

I've been using the demo version of Dynamic Photo HDR. Works great as long as I frame my picture so the software watermark doesn't take away from the final image

[greg1701]

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[mar dela cruz]

love the rays of light in the forest. tfs