I much prefer Version 2 - seems like more natural lighting, the other one looks as if someone has walked around with a flash and illuminated the scene as they went, resulting in an almost cartoon effect.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Øsleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:36 PM Subject: RE: PESO- merge to HDR (OT-Surreal phot) > BTW. I just saw an interesting, but terrible IMO, semi HDR picture. > http://www.photosight.org/photo.php?photoid=44863&ref=author > The light looks surreal. Kind of funny effect, but tiresome to the eye. > > There is a thumb below to the original. I'd like to hear some opinions on > this. > > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14. november 2006 02:28 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO- merge to HDR > > I've decided to really try to come to grips with the 32bit hdr function in > photoshop > CS2. the tricky part is working the curve when converting back down to 16 > bits. > It's very easy to get awful results and quite hard to get good results. > > This was shot Sunday evening at Darling Harbour in Sydney. From memory > there > were about 7 exposures blended. In hindsight, I should have taken a > couple > more > further towards the underexposed side, but I'm still happy with the > result. > > Unfortunately, this is the largest size I can upload. > > http://tinyurl.com/y46kuj > > Comments welcome and if there's anyone out there with expertise with this > function, advice is definitely welcome. :) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

