tcthome Loc: NJ

Great eye. I would of had to go back, clean it up &, printit again. Haha = but true. I agree about not being over-done. Nice work.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Nice. Did you do the clean up on the individual photos or after the HDR process?

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Thanks. I just edited the merged shot. The merging software is designed to work with unedited shots so the merge can go a bit funny if you do any editing to the individual shots.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

RG, excellent very somber mood photo. The ship is a great image that can be extracted and put into other venues to form sticking messages.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Thank you Donald. I hadn't thought of composites (probably because I don't do them ), but a good idea.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

I'm not going to analyze it but rather just say beautiful capture and process

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Thanks. That's enough of an analysis for me .

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

Very nice. I like images of these old abandoned/beached boats.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Impressive result, R.G., well worth the effort!

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Thank you SalvageDiver. I think I detect a nautical theme in your user name .

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Thank you Mike.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Looks like a fine image R.G. I have fooled with HDR a little but not a lot. All I have is stand alone Lightroom 6 to merge my images. One question I have is do you have to be in full manual mode or can you use aperture priority? Also I understand that you do not want the aperture to change, right or wrong?

Don

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Thank you Don. Lr6 will do a fine job of merging bracketed shots, just be aware that the results will still need editing. You should experiment and use the minimum amount of anti-ghosting that you need, and look out for the anti-ghosting causing some areas to look different. It usually does a good job of having everything look the same but sometimes the areas that are selected for anti-ghosting come out looking different and you can see the outline of that area in the final merge. If that happens you can go either way - use either the minimum or the maximum level of anti-ghosting, or none - whatever gives the smoothest results.

I think it probably depends on the camera but my understanding is that the mode determines how you set up the camera for the neutral exposure but if auto bracketing is engaged the camera will use shutter speed to give the different exposures. I've never heard of any exceptions to that. Your settings determine the neutral exposure (including any exposure compensation setting) and the camera does the rest.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

I use Aurora HDR too. I usually just use 3 or 4 exposures. As mentioned earlier it has quite a bit of ghosting especially in the back of the boat around the wire. If it was hand held different images probably had movement between shots and did its best. I would try and re-process it using just 3 images and see if it improves.

I have used the software for just one image and like the results 80% of the time With the first image it produces. I also have used the software on some MIYV images by opening in photoshop then saving 3 jpg images, one no changes, then one 1 stop over exposure and one 1 stop under. Take the 3 images into Aurora and let it do its thing. Usually the first image it show is what I use. Bring that into Photoshop and make some additional moves using the Camera raw filter.