I've bitten to photomatix and have to admit I like it very much.
Here's a shot I had tried to work out with CS5's hdr function that didn't work out. With Photomatix, this is what came out.
It's snowing again and the contrast is lousy for photography. But as i was driving back home for lunch I saw this little river.
So I got out, no tripod, continuous bracketing -2 0 +2 raw and jpeg basic.
when I got home, I wanted to do something fast so I used the basic JPEG files to merge to HDR...
One portion of your question was not answered. You wanted to see picture taken with the D7k.
Here's one taken at 1600 ISO. Mind you, this is low res for the forum. I have a few in my gallery so it could maybe give you an idea.
No Trespassing
This is a double exposure shot manipulated in CS5 HDR module. Some subjects work better than others. I had no tripod and most of my HRD shots that day were SHOT :-)
Too much camera movement in between exposures, even shooting in continuous mode.
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As it is snowing a lot and there is just no contrast and I don't want to get the D7K wet, I started playing around with the HDR adjustments in CS5.
this is what came out of it.
It's kind of 3 dimensional and it does attract the eye.
Thanks for viewing
So, here's my last entry. I could have chosen the piano HDR, but this is the one I prefer. So now I can stop thinking about this contest thing. Although this is a picture of an icicle, I see many things happening in there.
Well, after seeing the others HDRs, I've gotten myself in.
After a tuning, I took 3 different exposures and this is what I got.
Took me a little while to figure out all the adjustments but I'll keep practicing.
Thanks to all who have encouraged me.
Marcel
Went for a walk in the woods yesterday and took this one from under a snow covered branch. A few seconds after the shot, the wind blew and all the snow fell. I'm really happy with the D7000 image quality. Creamy colors.
Marcel
Here's my shot of the day. The light outside is just too awful to be used, so I played inside with my frosted glass and this key chain I found inside a piano.
1600 ISO, F8, 1/30s, 18-200 VR at 200, hand held with VR on ;-)
Marcel
I might get flamed and if I'm wrong I apologize in advance.
Since there are only 2 doorway pics posted so far, I'd like to post one that is NOT ADMISSIBLE for the contest since it was taken outside the time frame allowed.
But, I find this doorway interesting.
It's from a toy store in...
I thought I'd post a few shots I did yesterday and today with the D7000.
Most were done with the 50 1.8.
You can see other pics taken with the 18-200 on my gallery.