A good canditate for HDR ?

[dseered]

Don't know alot about the subject really but this image strikes me as a possible canditate for HDR, its my old 749 and my mates T9 above Ullswater in 2005, taken on a P&S.
Feel free to have a play !

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8022/airaforce8lb.jpg

[dseered]

And another maybe ?
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/7033/hartsidetop8kh.jpg

[Chillijam]

I'd say the second more than the first. The first one seems to have a decent enough range already, although the lowlights around the nikes may benefit slightly fro a little treatment. Nice machinery, though. :)

[mobilevirgin]

Its obviously impossible to create an HDR from a single jpg. If you've got the raw files, then it could be done from that. The only way to know for sure is to have a go.

But, I was reminded of a post by HimUpNorth a while back which took a while to find, but I did - Contrast Masking - an HDR alternative: here (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=30650).

Using a similar workflow to that described by Gary in that post, I managed these 2 edits:

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll268/fordcougar/TP%20stuff/photome-1208301724906.jpg

and

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll268/fordcougar/TP%20stuff/photome-1208302378000.jpg

That exercise has produced what I think is a much better version of your 1st pic. As for the 2nd, I'm not so sure and it would probably take a more experienced PS person than me to sort it out. But hope that helps.

MV

[dseered]

Its obviously impossible to create an HDR from a single jpg. If you've got the raw files, then it could be done from that. The only way to know for sure is to have a go.

But, I was reminded of a post by HimUpNorth a while back which took a while to find, but I did - Contrast Masking - an HDR alternative: here (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=30650).

Using a similar workflow to that described by Gary in that post, I managed these 2 edits:

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll268/fordcougar/TP%20stuff/photome-1208301724906.jpg

and

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll268/fordcougar/TP%20stuff/photome-1208302378000.jpg

That exercise has produced what I think is a much better version of your 1st pic. As for the 2nd, I'm not so sure and it would probably take a more experienced PS person than me to sort it out. But hope that helps.

MV

Thanks for that, obviously this pic is never going to great due the original but I see what you have done, essentially brightened up the foreground and darkened the sky - I will have a read up about it and try and take some shots with a view to practice this technique !