Derniers rayons sur le lac des EscarcetsMy recent discovery of the Hidyn Gems blog decided me to make some new tries with hdr for my landscapes.
The lake landscape above was captured with the last sun of the day.
Water was very dark, some grass was lightened and shined while some other was in the shadow. It was the good time to test the HDR thing and little plus : the water was very calm while it had been wavy during all the afternoon.
I used 3 shots to build this image :
- 1 exposed for the midtones, with underexposed shadows and blown highlights.
- 1 exposed with +1IL to increase shadows details and quality.
- 1 exposed with -1IL to preserve highlights details.
The 3 nef files were directly converted to a real HDR image and then tonemapped with Photomatix. The tonemapped image was saved as a 48 bits TIF file on which i did a very few further enhancements in PictureWindow Pro.
In the final image, the shining grass is perfect and also the dark one as you can see with the crops under.
If you want to have a better view on this photo, you can see it larger here.
2 comments :
Ooo wow, this is whole new world to me. I wish I have much more time to study this technique... so bookmarked this story and hopefully can take a closer look some day. And as always, your picture looks gorgeous :)
Very nice example of HDR photography. You've really done it well. I've seen examples where the photo is starting to look unrealistic because every inch is so bright and vibrant. Here, you've kept that sense of shadow and light that is so critical in photography, but yet used the technique to bring out the detail. Very nice.
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