Thursday, 25 August 2011

Slowly, Sowly, Colour HDR

Formally revealing my interest in colour HDR and tone-mapping techniques...

Would you like to see more?

I've been experimenting for a while with HDR. Regular followers will know that I started out a couple or so years ago on my b&w work, where it suited the image.

Recently I moved onto using it in the digital darkroom with colour shots, but haven't published much until now, preferring first to play around until I'd mostly mastered it. Well, I don't claim to be there yet, but I feel comfortable enough with the technique to start to publish.

Plymouth Barbican by Night, August 2011
I'm very pleased with the way this one turned out. Would you be able to tell that I used HDR and tone-mapping techniques? If not, then I've succeeded with that aspect, hehe!

On a different note, I believe that I've bumped into a compositional issue with this shot, one where composition and the desire for "pretty colours" are in conflict. I won't say what it is because I don't want to influence you but if you do spot it, I'd love to know (after all, I may just be being paranoid, hehe!).

I'll leave it a few days, and if anyone has commented about it, I'll say what I mean in reply.

Post by: +Mark Highton Ridley
comments / critique / feedback/ likes  / tweets / +1s ..are always welcome :)

4 comments:

imac said...

I know Im wrong, and only an amateur, but i seem to be looking at 2 pics together.
I know Im rubbish at this Mark.

Highton-Ridley said...

I really don't know what you mean, Stewart - where are the two that you're seeing?

Betty Manousos@ Cut and Dry said...

Incredibly beautiful and powerful photo which blurs our sense of the difference between reality and illusion.
looks surreal even magic!

I love the vibrant colous here and the blending of three different exposures is fantastic!

What a dynamic range of exposures and a pretty fancy result!

Looking forward for more!!
Keep up the magnificent work!

Betty

Rob said...

Awesome work! I have tried night HDR in the past with minimal results - too much noise. Worse, yet, I lost my Photomatix HDR program when I switched to a new PC box. DO I repurchase Photomatix, or go with a different HDR platform?

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