OMG Garbz did a HDR.

[Garbz]

So sue me in this case it worked so well

These were taken from the same nuthouse as this thread http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129522 just posted.

And two much more normal looking photos with only a slightly extended dynamic range:

Large ones on flickr. Thanks for looking.

 

[nynfortoo]

You've changed, man, I can't take you seriously any more!

Good job, though. You didn't over-do the HDR, which is my major peeve about the technique.

 

[Renair]

Like it, great colours.

 

[Antarctican]

I agree with nynfortoo...you didn't overdo it, so it looks good. I especially like the first shot

 

[tirediron]

Indeed, what my fellow Canuckian said. I really like the effect of the graffiti on the first image. Good job! What process did you use?

 

[Garbz]

The bottom two are subtly processed only in photomatix. The top two went through photomatix and then into photoshop, again the photomatix processing was subtle and most importantly I made sure some highlights were still clipped. Then created a few layers of the same image, blurred and changed the blending to softlight and overlay to get get the glowing effect.

This is not something I normally go for but I was very happy with this image for some reason. I am the first to complain about over processed HDR trying to look "real". If you're gonna overprocess do it like woodsac did and make it good