Holkham Hall - HDR Warning!!!

Visited a nearby Stately Home last weekend (Holkham Hall). The weather was pretty miserable so I've been trying to use various techniques to breathe life into some of the shots I took.

I have used HDR on these two, I haven't used extreme settings but I've also not tried to hide the post processing. That "Hyper Real" look is intentional in these pictures but I wanted to stay one step down from "Cartoony":







The last one works particularly well as a Desktop on my 24" iMac.

Both are very very nice

Thanks Lilly

Just had a look through your flickr shots, some fabulous pictures on there

Those are both very nice captures and I like the HDR effect - really gives some atmosphere.

I really like the second one, very picture postcard like.

I like the crop as it is but have you tried cropping it a bit more from the right .

I really need to learn that HDR...Impressive results - and these a very good indeed

I like the two shots... but wonder whether true HDR was actually needed
You need bracketed shots when there's a huge range in contrast (so that you'd either get huge areas that were blown out or lost in the shadows).

You can get the "HDR look" by carefully tone-mapping a single image
(Perhaps one reason why the Artizen tone mapping operators are available separately as Photoshop plugins )
Matt

I like them but suspect they are not true HDR (from multiple exposures) but pseudo-HDR. All the stuff I've done is pseudo, and the following is the most extreme example, because the SF looking building called for it.