HDR Shootout #5

[480sparky]

Original Jpeg:

Full-size images are here:

EV -2
EV 0
EV +2


I shot these without a tripod, and it was windy as all get-out, so alignment might be a problem. Metadata attached.

 

[KongKurs]

I cannot get the links to work...?

 

[480sparky]

How about now?

 

[SlickSalmon]

Straight out of Photomatix Pro; details enhancer; strength =40

Just a little Photoshop touchup. If I was doing this for real, I probably would have used a higher strength in Photomatix and dealt with the resulting halos more aggressively in Photoshop.

Thanks for posting the challenge!

 

[480sparky]

My version:

Luminance HDR.
Profile 1
Pregamma 1
Mantuik '06
Contrast Mapping 0.9
Saturation Factor 1.2
Detail Factor 10

Cropping in GIMP to remove edges that are out-of-frame between images as well as increase saturation in the blue sky a bit.

 

[Bynx]

When shooting this scene there is the bright sky and its required underexposure. Then there is that dark interior of the silo, which requires a real hefty overexposure. I think the difference between the sky and that interior required more than just 3 shots. At least 5 or 7 would have been better. Another minute of your time and you would have had it, and if not needed whats lost except a minute.

 

[480sparky]

I would have done that if I have my 3rd, 4th and 5th legs with me. But I didn't, and the wind was gusting 30-40 mph. So you take what you can get.

 

[kdeerhake]

Oh this is fun! Thank you!

Here is mine

 

[Bynx]

Again still plugging away with Nik HDR Effex Pro.

 

[RockstarPhotography]

my take on it......

[/url]hdr by rockstarrphotography, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[SlickSalmon]

I think there's an important technique lesson to be learned here. Bynx was the only participant to successfully dig the shadow detail out of the interior of the silo. I couldn't do it with Photomatix from the initial photos provided. So I went back to the +2EV image, dug the detail out of the interior of the building with Photoshop, and recreated the +2EV image. Then I used that one for a new Photomatix tonemapped image. That step results in the attached...

Still not a perfect image, but at least the interior of the building has been revealed.

 

[Bynx]

Excellent job Slick. Everything in your shots looks good. Even your clouds. Mine are too dramatic. As for the interior, thats how I addressed it as well. I took the lightest shot and made another one even lighter just for the interior and added that shot to the mix. This time I used a program I forgot about called HDRtist.

 

[SlickSalmon]

Wow, thanks Bynx! But we're still waiting for a couple of others to chime in, particularly Provo with what will probably be the definitive work. BTW, what happened to myshkin? He should be participating in this.

 

[nos33]

so i loaded these up into photomatix using previous settings and this is what popped up.

photomatix pro 4.0.2
no photoshop
no touchups

And here is the same with some photoshop.

 

[Provo]

so i loaded these up into photomatix using previous settings and this is what popped up.

photomatix pro 4.0.2
no photoshop
no touchups


And here is the same with some photoshop.

Nice I like it