White House
Another of my HDR experiments, this time of a brightly lit white stucco house in North Saanich. It was a sunny day with very bright highlights on the white walls and some dark shaded areas so I was interested in how well HDR could handle these extremes. I used a full f-stop for the brackets, all use only 3 images. Some Lightroom adjustments were necessary after the tone mapping. For instance the more distant umbrella below was a dirty grey and I had to lighten it up as best I could. Adjusting levels in Photomatix during the HDR processing was not successful in getting it brighter, but that might be something I need to learn more about, these are some of the very first HDR images I processed.
These frames also use the rented tilt-shift lens which I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Some of the slightly odd angles it can produce are visible in these images. Also, in the door picture, the strange focus plane is very evident.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L, ISO100, all +/- 1 EV
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What absolutely fabulous details and textures you’re bringing out in these images, Ehpem! Great work, my friend. It’s so great to see you diving into HDR like this, I love being able to see your images here!
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Thank you so much Toad. I am pleased that you are enjoying these images. You will see in the art exhibit that I posted the last couple of days that I stretched myself by doing HDR crowd scenes. One or two of those shots came out surprisingly well, but I think I will stick with houses, on a day with no breeze.
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You should see me in action in the field, Ehpem. When I am trying to capture my brackets and the wind is rustling the grasses and trees I am often to be found waving my fist in the air… like that’s going to help….
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The (futile) urge to conduct weather strikes us all from time to time.
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Incredible range of tones. It does work very well for these compositions. It makes me think of English cottages for some reason.
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Hi Karen and thank you. I think that the look is supposed to be English cottage. The rounded edges of the roof on the gables I think is supposed to be reminiscent of cottage roofs. I know that this place was enlarged quite a bit by English-y people, and a lot of its charm comes from the cottage feel. Not all that uncommon in Victoria area.
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Excellent! Especially the flower pot by the door shot. when I have a bracketed series (usually in RAW format) I will apply some sharpening and clarity as well as white balance correction (if necessary) and apply the same corrections to the series using the SYNC button in Lightroom. After that I can start whatever HDR process is required using HDR Pro 2. This way, you take advantage of the Lightroom adjustments before any other software adjustments are applied. Is this the same technique you follow?
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Hi Ken. Thanks for the comment – I am doing a bit of what you describe, or nibbling around the edges so far for some shots. I am shooting RAW for my brackets. If the brackets seem to need something, then I might adjust them in Lightroom, but this has only been for more extreme things so far. Photomatix has an option for noise reduction which I have been using in higher ISO brackets but really should do to the RAW images. Mostly I have been tweaking the HDR version in Lightroom after processing the image. I can see a lot of advantages to the workflow you describe and will keep it in mind (in fact, have already tried it for some exhibit shots I took last night at the opening of an art show; it seems to be helpful). So thanks for the hint!
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