A couple more from Foggy New Orleans yesterday

[theantiquetiger]

foggy st louis by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

plaza d armas by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

[Runmonty]

You have really created a mood with this set (and others from your recent photo walk). The processing really works for these too.

I tend to to recall a little while ago you that you were disappointed by some fog photos. You seem to have nailed it this time. I think it possibly helps that their are lights that are reflecting off the fog.

[theantiquetiger]

I went down there for two reasons yesterday. One, was to grab some foggy scenes around this cathedral, and two, work on my HDR post processing. I use Promatrix for my HDR images, but I find that the program tends to make the final image a little cartoonish, so I export the image to Lightroom afterwards to tone down the effects of Promatrix. The top one above is a single exposure image and the second one is a three exposure HDR image from Promatrix. I did take three exposures of the first one, but because of all the light coming from the left side of the image, there was a lot of halos around the tree and building.

[Runmonty]

I use Promatrix for my HDR images, but I find that the program tends to make the final image a little cartoonish, so I export the image to Lightroom afterwards to tone down the effects of Promatrix.

I normally use HDR Efex Pro which has some quite good natural looking presets.

I think the approach of processing again in Lightroom is a good one. I will often bring the HDR (or otherwise heavily processed) image into PS and overlay that on the original image and simply adjust the layer opacity, to tone down the effect a bit.

[Marko]

really cool mood supported by the processing.
They look great together and might make for some cool framers.

[theantiquetiger]

Went and got the first one framed 20x30. I lightened the whites and highlights a little (after the edit above)