Whitch is the HDR

[fms]

Which is the HDR?

 

[happy snapper uk]

Bottom one?

 

[Franz07]

The upper one.
It shows details where the other one does not - the purpose of HDR.

There seems to be more noise visible in the upper one. Could it be that you used a brightened version of the original jpg for the HDR treatment. Or differently processed versions of the original raw, instead of using different takes of the scenery?

BTW, beautiful picture!

 

[Franz07]

... on second sight I saw that the bottom one has some strange kind of halo above the horizon, what could well be the effect of layering...

So I'm undecided and curious about your clarification.

 

[fms]

It is the second one. These were taken at sunrise on 12/17/09. I could not pass up the colors.

I tried everything I knew to get rid of the lines above the horizion but was unable. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
fms

 

[Bobo Hodls]

I'd have to venture a guess that neither are results of a blending/HDR of multiple exposures.

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[DjD_a700]

Use the "zoom in" feature and go past full image and you will see the halo is a bad merge. The proof is in the clouds in the upper left, they do not over lap each other properly either. Do the same on the top picture and you'll see it will become evident...
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Dennis

 

[jpmalohesr]

It really detracted from the original.

Jim

 

[Franz07]

Agreed! I think you are right.

It's looks pretty much as if something in the original shot caused tricky conditions for the merge. Presumably it was the fringing that made e.g. an auto-merge unreliable. The harsh light conditions can be blamed for these, I guess.

 

[fms]

I woke up, looked out the front window and saw the sunrise. Went outside in my robe in 15 degree weather and took the first photo. I thought since I had gone to the trouble it would try HDR with the second. I handheld the camera bracing against a fence post and took the HDR. It is composed of 3 images. One is 2 stops down, one is 2 stops up and one is netural. It was processed with Photomatix Pro. I thought that it may help with the contrast of the land with the sky but as you can see it made no difference.
fms

 

[happy snapper uk]

i was right then...ha ha

 

[DjD_a700]

I woke up, looked out the front window and saw the sunrise. Went outside in my robe in 15 degree weather and took the first photo. I thought since I had gone to the trouble it would try HDR with the second. I handheld the camera bracing against a fence post and took the HDR. It is composed of 3 images. One is 2 stops down, one is 2 stops up and one is netural. It was processed with Photomatix Pro. I thought that it may help with the contrast of the land with the sky but as you can see it made no difference.
fms

Along with everything in the merge, something went wrong with your bracketing. The forground in the hdr shot is darker than the initial shot...
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Dennis