Suburbia on Thin Ice

[F8&Bthere]

Well, back to tweakin HDR...

[JAS_Photo]

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

[casil403]

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

[Mad Aussie]

Cool. Like it.

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

[AntZ]

Cool HDR.

[Bambi]

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.

[kat]

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

[F8&Bthere]

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

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.

[kat]

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.

That is it hey!

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

[Marko]

Oh this is VERY nice! 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.