Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

Your previous post was very helpful and the HDR shot you gave me the link to was outstanding. Not overdone, just right, at least to my taste. I consider HDR an art form and always label my composite shots as such. I know you can't please everybody, that's why it's called art. I guess you're lucky if you please yourself and somebody else might like it too.

Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

Thanks everybody, you've been very helpful. After turning the VR off, I was able to get a much better night cityscape than previously had been possible. I never would have known that the VR was actually causing more vibration with the camera mounted on a tripod than otherwise would have been present. Here's the result after minimal work in Lightroom 5. The first is an HDR shot made up of 3 exposures from -2 to +2, the other two are single shots.

HDR composite


Standard photo


Standard photo