Belle's Library

My favorite part of the France pavillion is one that a lot of people don't even know is there... it's across from the Guerlain Boutique.
And yes, dear friends, there is some SERIOUS HDR going on in this pic.

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the trick is to be subtle. the window is quite bright so if you expose for the window, the foreground will be very dark and have little detail. i used a RAW and developed one for the window and the other for the foreground, layered them and used a mask to get the look i wanted. the trick, like i said, is to be subtle and not get too aggressive. thanks for the compliments.

 

I'll have to give that window a whirl in 8 weeks. In A2 I was amazed on the level of the highlights I was able to recover on the Gran Fiesta Tour, plus boosting the shadows as well.

I think the Hydra HDR does basically what you did there Tim. Beautiful.

 

thats very cool Tim, Neat technique!

 

I need to play with it again in A2, but....A2 does a really good job for pulling the highlight data from the RAW file. Much more than I expected.

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I turned down the exposure and tried it again.

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Standing a little closer this time....

 

That one is the best Roger!
It nailed the colors and white balance perfectly too!

 

Thanks Craig!

Other than in dark rides it seems to me that the auto-wb is nailing it more often than not.

 

Yes the d300 wb is also much more exact than the d80. I used auto almost the entire trip. And the only time I didn't, I only used k temp, at 2500k-3000k to get rid of the orange cast!

 

I really like this new shot Roger. The D700 seems to be a pretty incredible camera.