ozdude Loc: Brisbane Australia

Newstead House. Brisbane, Oz

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joe west Loc: Taylor, Michigan

nice pic's but i don't see any hdr in number 2

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

Not a good HDR but HDR none the less. Look at the tell tale halo around the chimney. I'm suspecting it is a pseudo HDR from 1 shot.

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

ozdude,

Nice treatment in your HDR attempt. There are a few problems with the final image.
1. There is ghosting the the branches in the upper left of the frame.
2. There is Haloing in the chimney, may be caused by overuse of tone mapping.

Somehow the subject does not look level, this maybe an optical illusion, or the camera was not level in respect to the building.

You should have some tools in your HDR processor to remove subject matter movement (branches and leaves).
If there is too much movement (windy day) it is sometimes useful to capture one RAW image at high shutter speed, and process it as a single RAW file into a three split HDR process.

Michael G

ozdude Loc: Brisbane Australia

Thanks big guy for your helpful critique. Really don't appreciate being called a liar. This was taken with three shots. I would have stated one shot if that was the fact. I posted this to become a better photographer not to be slammed by a self appointed professional.

ozdude Loc: Brisbane Australia

Thanks Armadillo. I appreciate your help and will work on these issues.
Thanks again mate.
:thumbup:

bobburk3 Loc: Maryland

I thought #2 was very nice and brought out the details in the house. There was some ghosting around some of the edges and I would be interested in learning how to eliminate that from some of the experts. I have the same problem with some of my HDR's. Not really interested in Big Guy's opinion above.

ozdude Loc: Brisbane Australia

Thanks Bob. You know this is a great site but unfortunately there are also a lot of pseudo experts that really need a reality check judging by some of the photographs they themselves post. Thank goodness there are more good people here to help.

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

First off, my response was to Joe West's comment of not seeing HDR in shot 2. I responded with a factual answer citing the halo around the chimney. I made the comment that it wasn't a good HDR and according to the other comments pointing out the errors of the shot I have to conclude I was right. I never said it was a bad HDR, just not a good one. As no information was given regarding the work flow of the shot, everyone is left to guess as to how it was done. I took a wild guess that it was from 1 shot but was informed it was from 3. Fine, I stand corrected. If we only had that information going in, it would let us make a more informed opinion.

I really can't get over how thin skinned some folks here are. They post their work and if they don't get oohs and ahhs they retaliate. I post my photos here and really appreciate the hard truths offered so I can better my photos in future. To keep things on a civil level I even PMed ozdude but I see he still throws barbs in the public forum.

To alleviate all hostilities let me say this about the above HDR shot....

OOOH, AHHHH.

ozdude Loc: Brisbane Australia

Fool

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Yes

infocus Loc: Australia

Look harder. It's there in the trees and the windows of the building.