C&C - HDR picture

[Psytrox]

Hello, I took my first HDR picture last night. Would really appreciate some C&C



- Psytrox


IMAGE

 

[Compaq]

I like it. Nice colours, nice saturation. I think there is a lot of dead space at the top and at the bottom, I keep wanting to have a more panoramic view. But that's just me.

Ohh, and there is a lot of detail-lacking black areas here (forest). A nice MDR (medium dynamic range)

Ohh, love the reflection. I think you captured the mood nicely. Where did you focus?

 

[Omofo]

Great sunset, but lacking high dynamic range. You should be able to see some detail in the trees.

 

[tirediron]

The HDR itself seems well done, and the reflections are very nice, but the image itself is somewhat less than exciting. Well done for avoiding the 'cartoon-like' look so many HDR images have.

 

[KmH]

How many exposures, and in what file format? Raw/ JPEG?

How did you decide how many, and the value of, the EV steps? How many steps were minus EV steps and how many were + EV steps?

What application did you use to merge the exposures?

 

[Psytrox]

Thanks for all the replies

I focused on the water, near the tree edge (automatic) and then switched to manual when i took the actual shots. The pictures were taken in RAW format.

I used adobe to merge the photos. As i said, this is my first HDR, so i didnt really "decide" anything, I just thought I'd give HDR a try I had +-2 and 0 exposure, three images. I am now wishing i would have taken 5, at +-1, 2 and 0 exposure.

If I'm lucky, I'll get another oppertunity tonight.