What on earth did I do?

Can anyone please tell me what I did to get the glow around the trees.
And second, can you tell me how to correct it.
I thank you very much.
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Al Reeder

I don't see a photo.

The photo is placed after the signature, and has no EXIF.

More details about it are necessary to understand where the issue is caming from.
Vitto
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Lol, I need an upgrade, my Nikon D6x is a too limited gear!

Just a shot in the dark. Are you doing HDR and toning with Enhanced toning? Hallows around trees is a common problem
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Ken Eis
http://keneis.zenfolio.com

to be honest ,its a badly PP,d HDR . nothing in the shot is correctly processed .
why dont you post the original,s ,for others here to give you some tips .

HDR is quite difficult to get to grips with ,and not helped by the vast array of one touch HDR program options available on many new HDR softwares .

it seems the software companies (though not all of them) seem to think we all want "instant HDR" and offer us a range of presets ,that quite frankly ruin a potentially good picture by over boosting different perameters .

only a few members here seem to grasp that HDR should be subtle and care is needed to make gains in the extreme light and dark areas to get the most from a scene .

i do acknowledge that HDR also has an arty side ,and some very nice surreal ,and cartoonish pics have been posted that are pleasing to look at .but the HDR softwares will destroy an image as well if a user does not use it correctly .

It was a good shot. That is exactly what I did. But now I don't have the original any longer. Any idea how to fix this thing?
Thanks for your input.
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Al Reeder

Thank you for your input. That was one of my first HDR, so ,,,,,,

Unfortunately I do not have the original any longer. Any way I could fix this up?
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Al Reeder

not really worth it ,I can see that a clean image of that scene would be a good shot ,but the ghosting between light and dark particularly in the trees is so bad it would take ages in photoshop or some similar program to remove it (the hard way ) and you have problems elsewhere on the picture too, porch area is just as bad ,with saturation and contrast all over the place .

your best bet would be to recreate the scene and use a tripod take the full 7 images , bracketed , and pick out the one that best shows the shadows ,and the one that best shows the light areas clearest ,for your HDR ,I usually use the image mid way between the two also ,making a 3 shot HDR .
what program did you use ?

Photomatix Pro.
BTW, thank you very much for your reply's.
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Al Reeder

Unfortunately as titchy said, the contrast/saturation is so out of whack it would take forever in photoshop to try and save it.

I played with it for about 15 minutes and had very little success trying to balance the values and remove ghosting; Its too far gone.

Thank you very much for trying.
I appreciate it.

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Al Reeder

First never thow away the px you use to stack in Photomatix. I've been shooting HDR using Photomatix pro for about 4 years and here are some suggestions.

1. The secret in a good HDR is in the tone mapping. You will notice that photomatix has 4 different options under tone mapping. Enhanced and Compressed are the main tone mapping styles most people use. Remember to use the defaults to start with and play with the sliders till you get to understand their effect.

Enhanced is what you used since its very aggressive and give you a grung look, hallows around trees and at the horizon but gives you nice dramatic clouds. This is the mapping most people object to. You can go to the smoothing slider and remove most of the hallows but you will always end up with a slightly grayish image.

Compressed gives you a very realistic, but saturated color without hallows. I use Deep instead of default with some adjustment.

Next is Adjust. This isn't a true HDR toning but gives you a very true result. I like it a lot.

Last is Average and I hardly ever us this.

I have the Pro version because it allows you to batch process. My work flow is to place all my HDR shots in folders whose titles are three, five, etc This allows me to separate out the stacks where I used three, five etc shots. Since I have already created my tone mapping custom settings I run the settings on the entire batch. Lets say 300 images that are in folder three. I tell Photomatix to create three output Tiffs, compressed, enhanced, and adjust. Make sure you check the box to elliminate the 32 bit HDR file that is also created. I leave the deghosting on. For that many shots I go have dinner....it will take 30-45 minutes with a reasonably fast computer.

Now that you have three Tiffs for each image you can sellect which you like best and through the other two away. Do remember that toning is NOT the last step. You should still do post processing. I sometimes use blending modes to blend the Compressed and Enhanced images with variable opacity to get the best of both toning methods in one output image.

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Ken Eis
http://keneis.zenfolio.com