Suburbia on Thin Ice

Well, back to tweakin HDR...

Very nice! Looks lile it's floating in the sky too.

Neat image F8...love the colouring in it.

Cool. Like it.

Is that really ice?? Looks more like water to me.

Cool HDR.

this is a great shot. Love the technique and the subject. It's one of those photos that you can look at over and over.

Very well done! I can't get my hdr to look like this!

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Originally Posted by kat

Very well done! I can't get my hdr to look like this!

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I find that lighting is key for best HDR results. You want more subdued lighting. This was shot at sunset on a pretty cloudy day. When I've tried bracketing for HDR in midday sun I've mostly been disappointed in the result. This was 3 exposures, assembled in Photomatix, tweaked the settings to minimize noise and haloes in the sky, then brought it into PSE7 and ran Topaz denoise, then added a gaussian blur layer in overlay blend mode reduced to 20% opacity, then I applied smart sharpen to only the houses and the sign so as to not sharpen any remaining noise or create artifacts where I want smoothness. That's it.

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Originally Posted by F8&Bthere

I find that lighting is key for best HDR results. You want more subdued lighting. This was shot at sunset on a pretty cloudy day. When I've tried bracketing for HDR in midday sun I've mostly been disappointed in the result. This was 3 exposures, assembled in Photomatix, tweaked the settings to minimize noise and haloes in the sky, then brought it into PSE7 and ran Topaz denoise, then added a gaussian blur layer in overlay blend mode reduced to 20% opacity, then I applied smart sharpen to only the houses and the sign so as to not sharpen any remaining noise or create artifacts where I want smoothness. That's it.

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That is it hey! :p

Nicely done! Yah..I try to avoid the midday shooting..just get too upset with the results now days...

Oh this is VERY nice:highfive:! Nominated.

Just curious did you take a shot without the sign - although the sign works for me in this shot, it's totally stealing the show. I could EASILY see many (more) people wanting to put this on their wall if the sign were gone.