Photogirl17 Loc: Glenwood, Ark.

True HDR Images.Day 6 Final day for The True HDR Challenge.

I hope you all have enjoyed it, I know I have..Thank you all for your fabulous contributions.

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joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Lovely work 🎈🖤🎈🖤🎈

Photogirl17 Loc: Glenwood, Ark.

Thanks Joe

SteveZas Loc: Lemont, Illinois

My Dentist was Phil Levoy at Oak Forest Dentistry on 159. He’s early 80’s and still “drilling and yanking”.
I’m in a local camera club ( Foresters C C ) and have participated in several of the shows at VVAC. Really a nice place. Sad to see that Julie and her husband just moved to Arkansas They did a good job at Vogt.
I’m fairly new hear ( a couple of months) and am starting to find my way around. A lot of good topics are covered and the posting of pics is nice to see other peoples work.

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

Here are a few from last weekend.

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Great clouds made a wonderful backdrop. The glider certainly is crisp and clear against them.

Photogirl17 Loc: Glenwood, Ark.

Beautiful Work Lucian..

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

I've been exploring HDR for years and am happy to share some of my stuff. I apologize for the watermarks. I used to put those on and I pulled these images from my site, so no chance to go back to the originals. Shot mostly in Asia: Japan, China and N. Korea, but some others as well. As you can see, I am not so interested in photorealism as nice (to me) images.

View of Mt. Fuji, Japan

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Audience at the Military Parade, Pyongyang, North Korea

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North Korean elites at lunch, Pyongyang, North Korea

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Moran Bong and musical show, Pyongyang, North Korea

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cherry blossoms, Tokyo

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Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan

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After the Tohoku tsunami, Japan

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Mt. Fuji from Shonan beach, Japan

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An evening in Beijing, PRC

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Ghost town of Bodie, CA

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Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Really like the style.
Need to visit Bodie.

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Kymarto, thank you for posting these wonderful creations (i have viewed your site in the past and your woek is outstanding). I especially enjoyed "Night in Bejing" and the ghost town. Were these bracketed frames? if so, about how many per image? I'm really curious.

Photogirl17 Loc: Glenwood, Ark.

Beautiful Imagery Toby..

Dr.Nikon Loc: Honolulu Hawaii

Outstanding HDR added to the darn good photos = spectacular .., a pleasure to view …

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

I generally shoot 9 frames 1 EV apart. For really extreme images I have to shoot 5 frames 3 EV apart. I use Photomatix Pro because it has a function called "selective deghosting", which allows selections of ghosted areas, and the assignment of the base frame for each section independently. So basically I circle all areas where something is moving and choose which image should be used for each. Having more frames makes this easier, because they have to be in the right exposure range.

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Thanks Toby. I know I have deghosting in both Lightroom and Photoshop and ON1 but I need to check about the selective option. I don’t have photo matrix. I appreciate your images and the info.

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

The others have deghosting, but it is not selective. You choose the base frame and the program uses that frame. Automatic geghosting can work well in some situations, but the stronger the setting the more dynamic range is lost across the whole frame. With Photomatix it is possible to choose different areas of movement and use different frames. For instance maybe you have someone moving in a dark area, and leaves fluttering in a light area against the sky. You can circle the person moving and choose a lighter frame as the base frame (where the person is better exposed), and then circle the leaves and using a darker frame (where the sky isn't blown out). And the rest of the image isn't compromised.

This has freed me to do HDR where there is movement, which really opens up the possibilities. Like these:

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