my first HDR

[kirby]

sorry trial version got ps but dont know how to use it yet..lol sooo let me have it...

[mtngal]

Can you post the middle exposure of your set? I'd be interested in seeing what you started with.

There's a lot to like in this picture. The only thing that bothers me is the sky - Photomatix sometimes has trouble with white clouds - it tends to make them grey. I think it did this to your sky, and there's some halos around the trees (give-away that its hdr). You might try to merge the frames again, this time increasing the smoothing. That should help your sky. A pretty house - if the house were on sale and I was buying I'd definitely check it out.

[kirby]

here's the middle one..i see a spot in the sky also but its only on the under exposed shot must be a bird.. only thing i can think of

[kirby]

her's one with martin's easy HDR from JPEG.....oops needs sharened up some oh well ..lol

[mtngal]

Well, you can sure see the extra dynamic range that photomatix added and why you would want to use it with this scene. I'm still not crazy about the halos around the trees and photomatix tended to bump up the green saturation a bit more than my taste, but others like it that way. You can easily adjust it to your taste if it's a bit much. The probable bird doesn't bother me, but that's another thing that easily cloned out.

[kirby]

ok i think this one looks a little better

[Bynx]

While I am temporarily looking at a lousy monitor, Im sure the image quality is not as good as it should be. There are many examples of HDR photos which truly look like you can reach out and touch them. See almost any of Walter S. photos. This photo is too pixellated and out of focus. Now the question of focus could be the uploading alteration that this site does to some photos if they are improperly uploaded. But its just enough to say it looks lousy compared to what it should look like.

[kirby]

i agree bynx they do look lousy after i put them on here ..didnt look that bad on my monitor .. dont know if i did somthin different this time or what but other photo's i put up dont seem to look this bad...mmmm have check that out when i get back home...on the road right now....they really look like crap on this laptop...lol....oh well i'll start over when i get back i guess...hopefully i will have a few good ones from the road to put up..

[stevegonsalves]

It looks like painting after using photomatix. The original one looks better.