First HDR Tips?

[laynea24]

Please ignore the Photomatix watermark. I used the free trial to do this.

 

[ronlane]

Not bad at all. You didn't "over-cook" it. Where was that taken in OK? (from OKC area myself).

 

[christop]

The sky looks overexposed in the beige areas. This means you didn't bracket your exposures far enough in the "underexposed" direction to prevent the sky from blowing out.

 

[BobSaget]

Looks good to me, mustn't have been very windy when you took it, I don't see any ghosting in the limbs. Also, no annoying Halos in areas where the trees meet the sky.

 

[fjrabon]

trees where the sky comes through are hard, if not impossible to get right, and you do see some halo-ing around these trees. Exposure wise, and processing wise I'm more or less okay with how it came out. The biggest issues I have with the picture have nothing to do with the HDR and more to do with the tilt and no real coherent sense of composition with the photograph generally.

Basically you have a tilted picture of a tiny mailbox is how the picture reads compositionally.

 

[laynea24]

trees where the sky comes through are hard, if not impossible to get right, and you do see some halo-ing around these trees. Exposure wise, and processing wise I'm more or less okay with how it came out. The biggest issues I have with the picture have nothing to do with the HDR and more to do with the tilt and no real coherent sense of composition with the photograph generally.

Basically you have a tilted picture of a tiny mailbox is how the picture reads compositionally.

Shoot! I got so excited about posting it that I forgot to crop it! Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[laynea24]

Okay, so next time I'll go further in the underexposed direction. How far should I go in the other direction? Overexpose or correct?

 

[laynea24]

Not bad at all. You didn't "over-cook" it. Where was that taken in OK? (from OKC area myself).

This is at Lake Guthrie!

 

[christop]

Okay, so next time I'll go further in the underexposed direction. How far should I go in the other direction? Overexpose or correct?

It seems to have enough detail in the shadows as it is, but it wouldn't hurt to overexpose more if you wanted to get more detail in there. The blown-out portion of the sky is what really stands out to me.

 

[laynea24]

Thanks! That answers my question.

 

[Red_John]

A good tip for shooting HDR, probably you already know it: Always photograph in Apperture Priority mode.

 

[laynea24]

A good tip for shooting HDR, probably you already know it: Always photograph in Apperture Priority mode.

No, I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.

 

[DannyLewis]

Not bad at all. You didn't "over-cook" it. Where was that taken in OK? (from OKC area myself).

This is at Lake Guthrie!

I am on Lake Hudson. Border town on the Cherokee Rez....

 

[laynea24]

I am on Lake Hudson. Border town on the Cherokee Rez....

Oh, cool! I don't think I've ever been there.

 

[480sparky]

Composition aside, the image is flat and lifeless. An increase in contrast and maybe some more saturation.

And I agree with the beige sky.... it's not been rendered correctly. All the frames probably had those areas totally blown out, even the under-exposed frames.