HDR-Possibilities

[Steve Adkins]

Please excuse this image ;) Too much movement!
Just wanted to share (and promote) what the 9 stop range (9 exp) in HDR can do even if you shoot at the sun.
"Straight" from Photomatix Pro. with crop L&R. Some fill light and Clarity added in Lightroom
Still able to capture texture of white flower.
Cool lens flare at bottom!
D700 w/14mm

[Steve Adkins]

I played with this one to see if it could be salvaged :)
All C&C welcome.

[denise ippolito]

Steve, Thanks for sharing this. I can really appreciate the program even more after seeing this example. In pane #2 the soft blue and greens are lovely. The flower and the leaf seem to be 3 dimensional. I might evict the highlight on the flower and tone down the one side of it just a teeny bit. What did you do to the bottom image to achieve that effect?:)

[Steve Adkins]

Thanks for your comments, denise! I forgot :) to mention on pane #2 that I used layers in CS5 and a frac BG blended and lowered the opacity to bring back some of the natural BG colors. Then increased brightness and lowered contrast and adjusted the blue saturation to just the BG. Some brush work in Lightroom to the bloom and lightened some dark residuals in the BG.

[denise ippolito]

Thanks for the workflow Steve. Much appreciated:)

[Kerry Perkins]

Steve, the first image is a good example of what you can do with all that tonal range. I really like what you did the image in the second pane. I'm seeing some white glow around some of the petals that could be toned down. Nice work to get this look!

[Steve Adkins]

Thanks Kerry. I did a little redo to tone down the glow :)