Yet another HDR attempt

[JPS]

No matter what I do I can't seem to be able to get my HDR images to look anything like I see them in my minds eye. Whether it started life as one image and the ev altered in Bridge or three shots as this image was and put through tone mapping.....

Anyway, this is Winnats Pass in Derbyshire last night at sunset.

 

[kmlc]

Beautiful. Not over baked and it has a lovely color to it

 

[eddo123]

sky looks nice, dunno whats happened to the green though. I cant comment, not into HDR at all. I find its a cheats way of calculating the appropriate filtration ect.

 

[PapaLazarou]

As soon as I saw your shot I new it was Winnats Pass, or the Devils Ar@ho:e as it's also called.

 

[bulb763]

Nice composition, but it seems a little flat. I find this a lot with Photomatix and normally adjust the curve in LR to bring a bit of contrast back

 

[Jayst84]

Did you use a tripod? Looks to me like the images aren't quite lined up properly, particularly in the top left. Really nice sky though.

 

[JPS]

Yes, a tripod was used but even that was having issues staying still in the howling wind that was coming down the hillside - hence the shots are not as perfectly lined as I would like.

I know it's not the best HDR attempt, but as they say, practice makes perfect and all that.....

 

[Jayst84]

Fair enough then, not a lot you can do to control the weather.. I've all but given up on HDR, tonemapping or whatever, don't have the talent to make it work like Pete and co. You've got it working a treat on the sky, so I suppose you're half way there.

 

[discodavor]

my best hdr shots come from 3 seperate exposures as opposed from 1 RAW file. also if using photomatix, sometimes tone mapping is not the way to go, have you played with the different "combine" highlight and shadow options?

decent image but the greens let it down, looks unnatural

dave

 

[R8JimBob88]

Tis a bloody steep road! Its a good attempt, i'm useless at HDR btw

 

[a1ex2001]

The foreground seems to lack detail, its become a bit of a washed out sea of green, any chance you could post the origional middle exposure for comparison?

The sky has come up nicely though!

 

[Dan.Hodson]

lol, I remember this from being a kid, always smells of burnt out clutches

 

[chewyuk]

JPS - Sky looks fine, but grass looks a funny colour to me?

 

[tontoshorse]

Did it really need it? As above the grass looks strange to me.
Go on post the original.

 

[Jo]

Try bringing the gamma down if you try it again. Also don't put the strength right up to full force, or the saturation, do it gradually from about 50% until you're happy with the results, whether you want it to be a more natural HDR or dramatic. Having played around in PSPPx2 with this one you posted, it seems the gamma may be your problem. I could be wrong though.

 

[Ally]

As has been said above, the sky is awsome but the foreground green is totally blended to the point of no detail at all. What did it look like with out HDR? was their a point?

 

[JPS]

This is the original middle exposed photo