Thread: Post your HDR pictures

Do you think it is overdone? My monitor cable failed so I'm using an uncalibrated connection until the new cable arrives (how long can it take???). Perhaps my current set off is not giving me an accurate representation?

I was going for a blue look to accurately represent the colours of the day. But I wasn't looking for surreal.

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by 300+

Do you think it is overdone? My monitor cable failed so I'm using an uncalibrated connection until the new cable arrives (how long can it take???). Perhaps my current set off is not giving me an accurate representation?

Cheers, Steve

No offense, but in my honest opinion, on my monitor, yes. The greens in the foreground fluoresce a little too much, and the range of blues go from turquoise to almost purple in spots. It reminds me of some of the crazier settings I've used in HDR Efex...

In my monitor the blues and green tones are ok without any other color contaminating the tones.
The image looks a tad dark to in my monitor and perhaps is that what give the impression of intense or saturated blues and greens in the image.

I'm viewing it on a standard macbook air. Whether that's having any effect, I don't know.

As it happens I'm just talking here about your photo with someone else, and we both agree that the blue in particular is over saturated, as if the image has been cross processed. Or at least, that's how it appears on my screen.

[edit]Make that *two* macbook air screens - an 11" and a 13". Perhaps the steps in the bracketing (+/-2) allow for too much contrast in the resulting image?

P.S. Didn't mean my response to be a critique of anyones work. I'm interested purely from a technical point of view, and if my monitor is out of calibration I'll be just as happy to find out, as it affects my own image processing.

Steve, I'm looking at it on a calibrated monitor and that blue is intense, bordering on purple. Good shot though

Originally Posted by 300+

Do you think it is overdone? My monitor cable failed so I'm using an uncalibrated connection until the new cable arrives (how long can it take???). Perhaps my current set off is not giving me an accurate representation?

I was going for a blue look to accurately represent the colours of the day. But I wasn't looking for surreal.

Cheers, Steve

Thanks for the feedback Mike & Arthur.

The first one is easy. Yes is dark. I like it that way :-)

As for the saturation point... I've looked at the image and the google compression has changed the image somewhat from the one I have. I've noticed this before and had to reduce contrast, etc. to make the online version look the way it does on my monitor.

The goggle version is noticeably more saturated than the full copy. I suspect a half stop exposure boost would address both issues.

And no offense taken on the feedback. I'm always happy to hear these things.

Cheers, Steve

Here is the same image with + half a stop and -5 on vibrance & sat.

Adding in the google compression has given a web version which sits halfway between the two versions on my screens. The trees in particular no longer look nuclear powered.



Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by 300+

Here is the same image with + half a stop and -5 on vibrance & sat.

Adding in the google compression has given a web version which sits halfway between the two versions on my screens. The trees in particular no longer look nuclear powered.



Cheers, Steve

Ah, much better. First one looked like somewhere the U.S.S. Enterprise would be coming in to land on by comparison. The colour saturation is still intense, but a LOT more natural on this version.