HDR's... my first attempts

Sammy, take the tone mapped images over into photoshop - Change the mode to Lab and drop your contrast and up the saturation and adjust the curves slightly- should help to pick the up some more

Over all not bad attempts - the detailing has come out well in the shadows

Thanks Sam, will do these were just a quick attempt the landscape one was done with 3 images as the sun was just to the left of the picture. Was about 8 in the morning at Chobham Common.

The best thing to practice on Sam would be things like trees and wall as the have a higher dynamic range - also if you want to practice some more without going out - take the ones you have of Lupo on Flkr and see what detailing you can bring out in his fur.

If you dont mind i did a quick one of Lupo to show you what you should aim for. Can i post it?
Open one up in PS and drop the curves to bring the exposure down - save it as "1", Then "ctrl - alt-z" so you bring it back to normal exposure and save as "2" then bring up the curves and save as "3" - then go through the tone mapping process.. Its not true HDR but the tecnique is fairly similar.

LOVE the second picture ...beautiful

yes sure Sam woul love to see what you have come up with

Thanks Mel

Cheers Sammy......



See the detailing in the coat - thats what your trying to bring out. To do this you need to up the curves, drop the contrast and do some dodging. I left the background as it was to overwhelming tone mapped.

Loads of detail in his fur! cool gives me something to aim for will have a practice when i get time

Love the 2nd shot, it's awesome!

Lovely pictures Sammy! The one of the barge is probably my favourite. I do like the way the HDR is subtle enough not to make the picture look unrealistic but still bring out some of the detail