HDR Auburn 1

HDR Auburn 1
Originally uploaded by Ngarkat

Taken recently at Auburn in South Australia. This is from a series of five RAW exposures spread over three stops
It was a little windy so the tree leaves moved a bit unfortunately.
All images first converted to 16 bit tiff in Nikon Capture NX, merged and tone mapped in Photomatix, yellow, red and blue each given a lift over multiple adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4, sharpened in Nikon Capture NX2 and saved from 16 bit Tiff to JPG. Then resized with Faststone.
Camera mounted on a Manfrotto tripod and cam triggered with electronic remote release.

HDR Auburn 2

HDR Auburn 2
Originally uploaded by Ngarkat

Taken recently at Auburn in South Australia. This is from a series of five RAW exposures spread over three stops.
Created in Photomatix, yellow, red and blue each given a lift over multiple adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4, sharpened in Nikon Capture NX2.
Camera mounted on a Manfrotto tripod and cam triggered with electronic remote release.

HDR Coorong 1

HDR Coorong 1
Originally uploaded by Ngarkat

This is from a shot (or series of 9 RAW shots) taken a couple of years ago in the Coorong of South Australia at sunrise. This is an area that is suffering the effects of a long drought in SA.
Created in Photomatix, yellow, red and blue each given a lift over multiple adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4, sharpened in Nikon Capture NX2.
Camera mounted on a Manfrotto tripod and cam triggered with electronic remote release.

HDR Coorong 2

HDR Coorong 2
Originally uploaded by Ngarkat

This is from a shot (or series of 9 RAW shots) taken a couple of years ago in the Coorong of South Australia at sunrise. I was not alone... with a gazillion mozzies keeping me company.

Probably about as far as I'd like to push HDR. I like to keep the images looking as realistic as possible, more along the lines of simply extended dynamic range i.e digging out detail in shadows and recovering blown highlights (or in reality simply flattening contrast but that sounds boring eh).

This is an area that is suffering the effects of a long drought in SA.

Created in Photomatix, yellow, red and blue each given a lift over multiple adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4, sharpened in Nikon Capture NX2
Camera mounted on a Manfrotto tripod and cam triggered with electronic remote release.

HDR Coorong 3

HDR Coorong 3
Originally uploaded by Ngarkat

This is from a shot (or series of 9 shots) taken a couple of years ago in the Coorong of South Australia at Sunrise. This is an area that is suffering the effects of a long drought in SA.
Created in Photomatix, yellow, red and blue each given a lift over multiple adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4, sharpened in Nikon Capture NX2