fricciardi Loc: Nashua, New Hampshire

Macro of flower converted to HDR. Comments or suggestions please

Adubin Loc: Indialantic, Florida

I would be interested in seeing your photo before you converted it to HDR. Arnold

Pentax-K10D Loc: Denver, Co

I would have to agree with Adubin on this one.

jonsund Loc: Currently: Florida, USA

I do not believe that you had a great enough range of light to justify the use of HDR. I think the original image could be tweaked to look much better than the HDR version.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Hi,

Also could you add a bit about what you did; e.g. how many exposures, what EV range, what software, and if there are software options?

I am trying to learn this and so far not satisfied with my oown results. My camera, which has a two exposure HDR built-in (D5100) seems to do better with something called "Active D-lighting".

I suspect part of my problem is choice of subject.

I am not sure it would do as much on your shot though as providing a buffered (e.g. filtered and/or bounced) flash might.

Regards,
Larry Leach

janislewis Loc: New Mexico

I am not sure what program you are using for processing your HDR but if you are using Photomatix I can make a couple of suggestions. First thing I do to one is adjust the Gamma. Then you can bump up the Black Point and take the White point down some. I see that you have some black don't know exactly what to call it through out your pic. You can take that out using the Micro-smoothing and Smooth Highlights. You will want to bump up the saturation after you do that. If you can't get the saturation you want from processing in Photomatix save it and then do some editing in Photoshop to finish it off.