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Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:09 pm**

No single shot can get this much DR, so I had to use HDR. My 2nd attempt

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:58 pm**

Wooooo....

I likes this... I do...

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:08 pm**

Love it Kris, and where are the crowds ?? Is everone in having a coffee or a wine ?

Gorgeous, can't wait to see more of your shots now you're home.

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:15 pm**

Great photo,

straighten zee horizon pleaze

Thanks a lot or sharing.

Cheers,
CD

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:41 pm**

No idea! it was late so I assume once the museum closes everyone disappears!

Wide angle lens I think this shot... so its distortion

I may play with this more though

Working through my images is a MAMMOTH task

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:14 pm**

Kris wrote:No idea! it was late so I assume once the museum closes everyone disappears!

Wide angle lens I think this shot... so its distortion I may play with this more though

Working through my images is a MAMMOTH task

Kris I was there till 11pm and it was PACKED full of tourists, I had to be Super patience to get shots minus people, and Katie helped by flashing stupid tourist till they moved out the of the way,only worked sometimes. BTW if you PP job is Mammoth what woud 20k of photos be ?

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:28 am**

I have NO idea how you took 20k in photos in 1/3 of my time OS - did you leave your camera on high speed or something

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:41 am**

Fantastic shot Kris,

Q) Was this multiple exposures and if so how do you stop the people from ghosting in the HDR merge?

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:48 am**

Single Show RAW HDR guys

nice and easy... AEB just isnt possible some times for the reason you've stated..

Glad you like em!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:10 am**

Kris what programe if any did you use for the HDR process ?

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:30 am**

Photomatix!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:33 am**

So just brought it in and tone mapped it ? If so, excellent results!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:42 am**

Yep, I played with all the sliders to achieve a blend of natural/hdr look - over the top HDR looks silly imo. Then used PS CS3 to play further with contrast/brightness/selective color/USM

Thanks!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:47 am**

Kris, what an excellent shot!

I must say your comment up the top "no single shot can get this much dynamic range" could probably do with correction to "no single digital shot". I have thousands of images with as much DR, some taken with $35 cameras, all taken on film. It was a pretty good material for its time

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:47 am**

Kris,

if you used a tripod you should have taken a couple more photos to try and blend out the people in the shot. with the little amount of people in the area, it shouldn't have taken that many shots.
the auto blend in PS-CS3 is awesome, but a little manual work is sometimes needed.

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:04 pm**

I could blend the people out in the single raw, then make 3 copies of that and do the HDR - I just didnt

I dislike spending ages PP but perhaps ill do a bit more here

Thanks Glen, sorry my Sony

Whats film again?

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:19 pm**

I actually like the people in the shot and think that in this case removing them lessen the photo overall, but just my 2 cents.

Congrats on POTW btw!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:32 pm**

POTW - serious?!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:41 pm**

Congrats Kris, a great image and worthy PotW.
Cheers
John

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