London Museam HDR

Just looking for opinions on this as well plz, compiled with 5 images again but have enhanced colours etc I know the shot is far from perfect just having a play with my new GX20

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I like the first one, but would have preferred it levelled. Looks pretty good to me

I'm finding these too drab for my taste. However, with the second shot here you are getting very close to a shot a friend of mine did of some cathedral cloisters.

It was very effective because it looked suitably spooky, but even the subdued HDR of that was quite a bit stronger than this one.

How far apart exposure wise are you making the shots? I would suggest 1EV steps (set in Photomatix) would bring things up quite a bit.

Thanks for the replys, i have been using 2 ev stops in camera, then auto braceting 5 images, Using photomatix pro and cs4 to edit the final image. Off to london again in a few weeks so i will capture this again, and make it better

Looking at these and the London Eye one and your comments has made me think this: HDR is for images whose dynamic range exceeds that which the camera sensor can faithfully record. Perhaps the DR in the subject just isn't very great to begin with and that is why they look a bit flat. Maybe you need a subject with really black shadows and really bright highlights? Just a thought.

Ken

You've lost the imapct of the stained glass windows in the second shot, so number 1 is my favourite, although still a little dull.

Fiona

PS - I think as Gartmore says, HDR is better used in shots with dark shadows and bright highlights. I think the idea of it is to "level out" and bring detail to the extreme lights and darks.