Marble Hall - HDR Pictures to play with

Red_John · Jan 27, 2013

'Source images copyright by Klaus Herrmann - farbspiel-photo.com - all rights reserved. Go to farbspiel-photo.com/ppw for details.'

So I decided to go to Klaus Herrmann webpage and download his free exposures of Marble Hall photography.
This HDR is made of 5 different exposures.

This is the picture in its normal exposure (ev = 0)

And here is my final result (via flickr)

Please leave your comments with suggestions. Thanks

rexbobcat · Jan 27, 2013

It looks too dark to me and the blue window light kind of looks weird.

Red_John · Jan 27, 2013

Thanks for the comment. Couldn't it be from your monitor or something else? I see the image very well. It's dark, but not too much

CowgirlMama · Jan 27, 2013

It looks underexposed to me, too, and my screen is set to full brightness right now because I've been watching movies. I would make it a little brighter.

fokker · Jan 27, 2013

The original looks a lot better.

Rick50 · Jan 27, 2013

I think you have made a common mistake by including the windows. Way too bright. Maybe rotate around a bit and exclude them. Even HDR is limited.

Parker219 · Jan 27, 2013

Yep. Too dark. I like the original better, when I get home I would like to give this photo a shot to make my version.

Red_John · Jan 27, 2013

i will see what I can do and post the results here

Red_John · Jan 27, 2013

What I noticed is that the underexposed images are really really dark, so maybe that's why my final result come so dark. Besides I added a vignette so it made the photo even darker. But hey, I'm not even a photographer I just play a little bit.. I'm not a pro. So thanks a lot for the feed back.
But please take a look here in this page: The Marble Hall with Guest Speaker | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

That's the same shot but edited by another guy, a real photographer. In my opinion his photo is darker than my version, what do you think?

Anyways, I will spend some more minutes and see what I can change in the final result. Hope you all could return here and give me your thoughts again.
Thanks a lot

Red_John · Jan 27, 2013

So, I increased the brightness in the images with the levels adjustment layer, and I also desaturated the blue tone which came from the window. What do you think about this one?

Parker219 · Jan 27, 2013

Source images copyright by Klaus Herrmann – farbspiel-photo.com – all rights reserved. Go to farbspiel-photo.com/ppw for details.’

I think a lot can be done with this image. I saw the Ops version, and figured I would go completely different.

Lets keep this thread going until we get a "winning" edit!

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