Tag: HDR

Sunset on the farm

Pictures shot at Stanford Harvest Saturday evening 7 February. First photograph is a portrait of artist Vivienne McOnie. The Bedford (second image) is HDR.

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An HDR-experiment

This morning I read an interesting discussion about HDR-processing on the blog of Leanne Cole. You might read it as well first (link opens in new window). In the past I experimented with HDR and as many I overdid it every now and than. Nowadays I try to avoid HDR as much as possible but there occasions I choose for it.

Anyway, if you’ve read my comment (nr. 67 I believe) you know that I make use (and experiment) with a wide range of software and Photoshop plug-ins (see also the page My Gear) and thus avoid the application of specific HDR-software like NIK Efex, Oloneo, etc.

My experiment this morning: two quick pictures (snapshots); one from behind my computer with the focus on the door (13 bracketed shots) and one from the verandah (8 bracketed shots). Both shot with with my Sony A77 with 16mm Zeiss lens.

I merged them in respectively Photoshop and Photomatix Pro. Next I processed one picture of each series in DxO Optics Pro 9 (with wide-angle correction). The advantage of DxO is that it callibrates the camera/lens combination and automatically makes adjustments resulting in colours that match the reality.

See and judge for yourself. First of each series is Photomatix followed by Photoshop and as last the non HDR DxO version. The ones in Photomatix are ‘mapped’ as ‘natural’ and no use of adjustment sliders in the Photoshop HDR window.

 

Sunrise in Mossel Bay 2

First picture (left) is a HDR fusion of three images shot with different shutter times and apertures. Processed in Photomatix Pro. The second (blueish one) is HDR-fusion processed in Photoshop.