I had a great day tramping around moorland up near Hathersage in the Peak District (Derbyshire, near sheffield) on sunday. This was my favourite picture of the day.
It was so windy up on the tops that I had to physically hold the tripod down whilst taking this picture, and it’s amazing it came out as well as it did, as the top exposure was over a second in length!
Technical info: ISO 100, f/22, tripod, 3 shot HDR processed in photomatix pro
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Greetings Dan,I have just finished reading your tutorial on HDR
& want to thank you for it. The tutorial was easy to follow & I need that in a tutorial:)I do like the effect that HDR gives to an image without being to noticeable. This particular one of the moorland IMHO is stunning,you really have catured its beauty with so much detail, foreground to background I like how your composition leads the eye right into the scene. I still don’t understand when taking three or more exposures,esp’ long exposures ,that the clouds align so well?I also like the tone & the natural colours captured here.
TFS
Ron
Thanks Ron - very kind
The cloud alignment / long exposure thing is a mixture of the algorithms Photomatix uses to smooth out movement between shots, and the luck of the draw of the shot itself. If the clouds had moved a lot, it would likely look pretty bad, but if the movement is fairly small Photomatix does a good job of smoothing things out.
There are some occasions where you really can’t take three exposures - people or animals moving around, trees blowing too much etc - in those instances you can either try a single shot HDR (processing a single raw image in photomatix) or just choosing your exposure well and hoping things work out