vanhulsenbeek Posted May 5, 2009 Share #1 Posted May 5, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) This is a view over the main loch on Corrour estate, south-east of Glencoe and due east of Corrour Station on the Glasgow-Fort Willam railway in Scotland. 5 pictures with different exposures, made in RAW with the WATE at 18mm and then fused into on HDR tone mapping tif at 32 bit. Opened in CS3, converted to B&W via the LAB color route. That pushes the perfect histogram of the HDR picture somewhat to the right, so you have to find the best rendition with the slider or in curves. This is the result, and when there is interest, there are some more where this one came from! The challenge now is to see how these pictures render in print. In color they are awful and that is why I tried the B&W route. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Hi vanhulsenbeek, Take a look here Scotland: B&W HDR view on Loch Ossian. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stuny Posted May 5, 2009 Share #2 Posted May 5, 2009 Sander - This is stunning, and the rays suggest spirituality. Gorgeous for composiiton, depth, detail, light, contrast, tonal range and texture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauledell Posted May 6, 2009 Share #3 Posted May 6, 2009 Sander, I agree with Stuart. Marvelous in every way, what more can I say! Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted May 6, 2009 Share #4 Posted May 6, 2009 Sander, fascinating experiment which has paid off. As an occasional HDR-er I must give it a try myself! Thanks for posting how you did it. LouisB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted May 6, 2009 Share #5 Posted May 6, 2009 Sander, this is a great image using HDR. I used the same sort of technique for my shot of the South Devon Coast which is a current post. I think HDR, especially in B&W photography is so useful. ________________________________ Cheers, Tom Photography by Tom Lane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marquinius Posted May 6, 2009 Share #6 Posted May 6, 2009 Sander, a) as Stuart states: stunning. as we spea, I'm also looking into HDR and B&W, iot get more range in my photos. So thanks for the inspiration and the workflow. Marco Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanhulsenbeek Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share #7 Posted May 6, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Sander, fascinating experiment which has paid off. As an occasional HDR-er I must give it a try myself! Thanks for posting how you did it. LouisB Louis, I used Photomatix Pro 3 ( HDR photo software & plugin - Tone Mapping, Exposure Fusion & HDR Imaging for photography ) , for WIN and MAC, which has a Lightroom plugin that seamlessly imports Leica M8 DNG's in Lightroom. I am told that Photoshop CS3 and higher also do a good job thought, but Photomatix is more flexible and has more tweaks available, especially in Tone Mapping. The workflow is transparent enough, but do not forget that Lightroom cannot handle the 32bit result in its thumbnails. So better not to save from Photomatix to your Lightroom folder, better use that for the final result. As Tom Lane also says, the HDR looks great for B&W. The color results do not please me at all. That is why I tried a B&W conversion and got a wow-Erlebnis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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