1ST hdr - C&C Please ! am I on the right track?

[zendianah]

I know that this isnt Woodsac or NJ but I wanted to give it a go. I think that I will try it on a different subject later and see. But here is my VERY first attempt. I used Photomatix and PS.

 

[LaFoto]

Teehee ... this is a nice one to start out with, too!
Now is this "real HDR" or "un-real HDR", i.e. tone mapping with ONE RAW-file and three or five or so different exposure settings?

And with this photo, cartoonish as it is to begin with, I would even think a very cartoonish way of making it come out could work. Though whenever I have played with my free version of Photomatix, I have never gone as far in the tone mapping as to create these cartoon style "pseudo"-HDRs.

 

[zendianah]

I followed Woodsacs tutorial. 3 different exposures. So I believe its real HDR? I'm going to try it again on a different picture not cartoonish.

 

[LaFoto]

Three exposures! Cool. That is better than what I have ever tried. Which is not quite true, I did try to set up the camera back in winter times to get three different exposures ... I am sure my attempts to create some TRUE HDRs are still somewhere in the BLOOPERS, though. Flimsy tripod ... grrr! (Oh well, the thread is still there, but the photos have gone ... better!)