Quick question or two about HDR

[Whiskeyman]

I have found that the software doesn't really like processing (as in it refuses to merge them) the images with waves in it and high deghosting selected. Even with zero deghosting selected it appears to pick one image with the water and use that versus combining all five like it was a really long exposure.

Which HDR software are you using?

 

[Clovishound]

Lightroom.

I am noticing that some of the pictures I took after the sun was up, that were not backlit ended up gaining a lot of "punch" and clarity. There were not what I would have expected to gain much by, but I kind of like the effect. It isn't a dramatic difference, but it is there.

Just out of curiosity, how many separate images do most of you use? I was thinking about redoing one of the 5 image merges with 3 and see how different it is.

I'm also curious how this technique would look using the Pup's D5600. A crop sensor may benefit more from this than a full frame since they have less dynamic range.

 

[Otis138]

Good bad or indifferent, I will post some results.

 

[Clovishound]

Good bad or indifferent, I will post some results.

This is an older thread, but it can be valuable to resurrect an old topic. Feel free to either post some of your results here in this thread, or start a new one of your own. Either way, we look forward to seeing some of your HDRs. I have used this technique a good bit at this location over the last few years, although I still find that sometimes I prefer to just edit one of the single exposures in the string. Still, it's a good tool to have in the box, and I have found it can make a difference in the final image.

Here's one I shot back in late Nov of last year. I don't remember if I tried a single exposure edit for this one or not. I suspect I did, but preferred the HDR version. I noticed that most of my edited shots of the sunrise taken that morning were HDRs.

I have found that I really like long exposure shots at this location. Here is one from a year and a half ago shot at 30 seconds, and I undoubtedly used my 10 stop ND filter, given the exposure data. Taking a bracketed string of long exposures would be rather cumbersome, and somewhat problematic, given the rapidly changing lighting at this time of day. Like HDRs, long exposures are a great technique, but not something you would, or should, use every day.