Archive 2012 · HDR Looking? hdr plus layering

kevindar
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p.1 #1 · HDR Looking? hdr plus layering

For fun, I was reworking an image. I had 3 shots, each 2 stops apart. here is the middle shot
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8039/7947184344_29b41a459b_b.jpg
Here is the final product
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8176/7947181004_fc84349b7e_b.jpg
I liked the waterfall on the left. the middle exposure was the perfect exposure for it. the other two either froze the water, or leveled it out. first I just tried to push the middle exposure, pushing the shadows, and doing some general exposure, and I came up with this., which was good, but with banding and a lot of noise in the shadows.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/7947186690_3df484e146_b.jpg
then I do a merge to hdr in photshop, got a 32 bit file, and edited it in LR. its a great clean way, without ending up with tone maping. the problem was the moving water, birds, and loss of waterfal
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8448/7947190686_4bf4e87886_b.jpg
So I combined the HDR, with the pushed image, using the primarily the pushed image, except in shadow areas. here is a compairson in noise in banding between the final image, and the pushed image
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8308/7947198446_c8a334061c_o.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8306/7947198292_f899662103_o.jpg
I think both the original and the hdr image combined well in this.
other option of course is the d800 :-).

Sep 06, 2012 at 09:55 PM

Jeffrey
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p.1 #2 · HDR Looking? hdr plus layering

Since this post is strictly about post processing, I'm moving it to that forum.

Sep 06, 2012 at 10:12 PM

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p.1 #3 · HDR Looking? hdr plus layering

Nice job!

Sep 07, 2012 at 12:14 AM


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