HDR rendering...

[Ferenc MÓGOR]

Just did some HDR rendering on some of my recent photos taken in Budapest. Do you think they work?

 

[arnoldtom]

I know many folks are tired of HDR but I tend to like the effect. Except for the sky in a couple of them.

 

[Ferenc MÓGOR]

I know many folks are tired of HDR but I tend to like the effect. Except for the sky in a couple of them.

Agree with you arnoldtom. I also like the effect from time to time, althoug I don't do HDR transformation frequently. Actually its a kinda software touch either done in-camera or during post processing. Interesting aspect that the sky may fall victim of such rendering, dunno why, but its true. From hereon I believe this kinda modification of our pictures is rather personal and subjective. Like it or leave it, right? My intention was to start some discussions on this technique. Thanks for your input. Take care.

 

[lostnomore]

I remember several years back when HDR was all the rage and I got some program that would generate them, but I never liked that way-too-over-processed look. All I wanted to do was balance brights and darks, not add some painterly look to the final photo! But then when I discovered the Photo -> Photo Merge -> HDR menu item in Lightroom, I finally found a way to create natural-looking HDR images. I'm sure all the other RAW processing programs have this ability, but I'm sure glad it showed up in Lightroom. Now I regularly take a series of 5 bracketed shots about 1/2- to 2/3-stop apart because it's so easy to merge them this way, ex. interior photos with windows, landscapes with bright sky and shadows in the same scene, etc.

 

[Kamoshika]

Just did some HDR rendering on some of my recent photos taken in Budapest. Do you think they work?

Interesting comparisons. For me, it works best with the last one,12. With 6, it works for the city (the Buda side, right?), but not the sky. Anyway, my 2 cents (or Forints, in this case).