Yup! All three are excellent pictures. I love the clouds in the third one. Welcome to CR!serendipidy said:Click said:Welcome to CR Spiffyinferno. I like your fire.
+1...very nice fire photo![]()
serendipidy said:Click said:Welcome to CR Spiffyinferno. I like your fire.
+1...very nice fire photo![]()
Click said:brianboru said:Bryce Canyon NP, Sunset Point
I like the colors and the light in this picture. Nicely done.
mpetersheim said:Hey guys, first time poster here, I think; I don't recall posting on the forum in the past...
Anyway, I've enjoyed a lot of the work posted in this thread, so here's a few of mine. I have fun with the HDR development process on some of my stuff, but on a lot of it I prefer an invisible HDR; that generally means either manually merging several brackets or just treading very lightly with the tone-mapping part of HDR. I've got some of both below....
mpetersheim said:Hey guys, first time poster here, I think; I don't recall posting on the forum in the past...
Anyway, I've enjoyed a lot of the work posted in this thread, so here's a few of mine. I have fun with the HDR development process on some of my stuff, but on a lot of it I prefer an invisible HDR; that generally means either manually merging several brackets or just treading very lightly with the tone-mapping part of HDR. I've got some of both below....
serendipidy said:Gorgeous photos. The last 3 look so natural I wouldn't have guessed they were HDR. What software did you use?
rpt said:Wow! Such great pics. The in camera HDR is terrible! I must get one of the HDR plugins. Suggestions please![]()
mpetersheim, thanks. I will check them out.mpetersheim said:rpt said:Wow! Such great pics. The in camera HDR is terrible! I must get one of the HDR plugins. Suggestions please![]()
I think the two most popular ones are Photomatix and Nik Software's HDR Efex Pro. Photomatix is cheaper (now that all Nik plugins are bundled together), probably more powerful and with a steeper learning curve. HDR Efex Pro costs more because all the Nik plugins are bundled together since Google bought Nik, and I think it's a little easier to learn but doesn't give you the level of control that Photomatix does. If others disagree, please correct me; it's been awhile since I used Photomatix.
The upside of buying the Nik bundle is that you get five other plugins, too; Silver Efex Pro, Viveza and Color Efex Pro were all particularly useful additions for me.
Really, though, I don't think you can go wrong with either option for HDR processing.