Classic HDR Landscape

Challenge #6 in the The Power of Editing series. Hosted by sagebrushfire.

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This is the most common use of HDR. Can you take advantage of multiple exposures to create a colorful landscape with a wide dynamic range? Use your photography and editing skills to create a landscape that has a a classic HDR look, specifically it should have a high dynamic range and NO areas of unnecessarily blown highlights or blackened shadows. Use of multiple exposure is not 100% necessary when shooting in RAW with certain cameras; you can get very good dynamic range if you know what you're doing.

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Announced:

Wednesday, 9th January, 2013 (GMT)

Submissions:

Wednesday, 16th January, 2013 – Tuesday, 22nd January, 2013 (GMT)

Voting:

Wednesday, 23rd January, 2013 – Tuesday, 29th January, 2013 (GMT)

Processing rules:

The goal is a High Dynamic Range image, use any tools or techniques required.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Images must have a good dynamic range with no blown highlights or blacked-out shadows.
Images should have a classic, almost surreal look because of the extended range of colors and values.
Images must be of a landscape, cityscape or other vast scene; the field of view should be between 45° and 180° (this is a guideline, not to be strictly enforced).

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 7

Honestly there are only 4 here even worth looking/voting on.....

1 upvote

HDR can be way overdone, most are way over saturated, looks like a jigsaw puzzle cover, however some are done very tastefully....

2 upvotes

Yeah I wish I had been more specific/strict with the rules so I could disqualify some of these, a few of them aren't even worth being voted on ...

3 upvotes

To the host:
There are very active cheaters in DPR challenges. Please, read carefully all the posts in the following thread! Cheaters should not be allowed to participate and should be banned!...

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50666187

1 upvote

That thread is too disorganized to sift through; we need a better way to deal with cheaters. I've had a few on my challenges.

3 upvotes

Can it be black and white? HDR of course, but black and white.

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Sorry didn't see this; I didn't mention it in the rules so I suppose yes; the only problem is that you're only going to get a tonally even look with JPEG and cheap monitors since sRGB only has 256 values in gray scale.

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Total comments: 7

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