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Bolton Abbey - LX3 High Dynamic

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IMO it makes the sky look more dramatic at the expense of everything else.
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Oll an gwella,
Jim

 
Hi Andy,

I've played around the the LX3 HDR mode as well but have not been able to produce good results when shooting natural landscapes or architecture.

I found that, although the pictures looked much better (than non-HDR) on my rear 3.0" LCD, once I got the images off camera and took a look on a computer monitor the "shadows" which are removed from images to create the HDR effect cause a loss of perspective and depth that makes them unnaturally flat and underwhelming.

Perhaps this is just a complaint of mine that I have against HDR in general, or my inexperience showing, as this is the first time I have shot HDR images. Additionally, because of the forced ISO 400 the images aren't quite as clean or detailed as their ISO 80-200 counterparts.

I do like using the HDR modes to create artistic images, particularly the "pop-art" style filter, which just creates outrageous, overblown colours.

In saying all of that, the sky in your two HDR examples is significantly more interesting and colourful than in the non-HDR ones, so it certainly adds some appeal...

Morgifier
 
Thanks for the comments - I agree really. The main beneficiary of 'High Dynamic' processing in these images certainly seems to be the sky. As has been mentioned the downside is the ISO 400 - which no doubt would be evident with further cropping/big prints, and the 'unnatural look' - shadows being lightened, and greens changing. To me the abbey shot looks 'flatter' than the river image, so perhaps in some instances it's worth a shot. I always take jpg + raw, so OOI, will have a play with the latter and HDR prog to see what I can come up with; it's no doubt possible to come up with something that yields a more interesting sky, but with understated foreground/shadow changes.

Andy

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http://flickr.com/photos/25983110@N05/

 
andyrox said:
Thanks for the comments - I agree really. The main beneficiary of 'High Dynamic' processing in these images certainly seems to be the sky. As has been mentioned the downside is the ISO 400 - which no doubt would be evident with further cropping/big prints, and the 'unnatural look' - shadows being lightened, and greens changing. To me the abbey shot looks 'flatter' than the river image, so perhaps in some instances it's worth a shot. I always take jpg + raw, so OOI, will have a play with the latter and HDR prog to see what I can come up with; it's no doubt possible to come up with something that yields a more interesting sky, but with understated foreground/shadow changes.

Andy

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UK

http://flickr.com/photos/25983110@N05/

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Can the camera do one normal shot and one HDR? Then just add the HDR sky to the regular image.
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Oll an gwella,
Jim

 
really like that first shot,Andy!!

I wont use the High Dynamic setting ...because of the forced ISO400 !

ANAYV
 
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