Bruges by Night

[scottmliddell]

Just back from a dash across Europe...

[Fred flyfisher]

That is totally awesome. Love the reflection and the color... Good exposure.

[bethard728]

That's beautiful! Love the colors!

[nissetag]

Real nice colors!

How did you shoot this, is there a bit HDR action going on in the PP?

[scottmliddell]

Yes, it's a combination of 3 shots -2,0,+2 - then HDR tone-mapped.

[CharlieJ]

Dusk is such an awesome time to photograph cityscapes. NICE image! THANKS for sharing.

[mortonnixon]

Great photo. I think I need to learn to do HDR. This shot looks amazing.

[scottmliddell]

It's really very simple if your camera does exposure bracketing. I set up -2, 0, +2, with a 3 shot burst on a tripod ( more shots is better if your camera can do more bracketing settings ).

There are a few tools you can use to do the tone mapping, for this shot I used Dynamic Photo HDR ( http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html ) - it pretty much does all the work for you, all you need to do is try not to get too extreme with the settings.

Another tool I've heard people use is Photomatix ( http://www.hdrsoft.com/ ) - I've not tried this one.

I almost always shoot some HDR-ready shots when shooting at night - it's great fun to see what comes out!

Thanks all for your kind words.

[alex3410]

love the shot well done

HDR
you can also shoot in RAW and then convert it 3 times, in fact the main reason i use RAW is so i know i can try HDR on any image i take

[RustySterling]

Love it. Great capture.