Smith Rock HDR

[EOBeav]

I’ve been looking through some older shots this week. It’s been a while since I posted any HDR images, so I thought I would show this now. I took this shot last April, on one of my trips to Central Oregon. You’re looking at Smith Rock, just north of Redmond.

Just wanted your general thoughts on how effective the HDR technique was, as well as any other comments you may have that are pertinent to the discussion.



Done in Qtpfsgui and further processed in GIMP. No EXIF data available.

Here’s the larger size on Flickr, which shows more detail.

[EOBeav]

Any thoughts on this?

[utsc2006]

I like the HDR on this one, it works well. You haven't overdone it but it pops just enough for effect. The sky somehow looks like it wasn't done in HDR tho... was that part of the image left out of processing?

[fletch]

It looks way overdone to me, very fantasy land. There is some haloing around the top of the mountains and the dynamic range is very compressed leading to a flat photo lacking in overall contrast, this make it look quite unnatural.

Also the photo doesn't really inspire me to look at it for long. It just not that interesting, no real subject to capture my attention so it just looks like you have used HDR to juice an ordinary shot, rather than trying to capture a difficult lighting scenario. Afterall some sections of the sky are still blown out.