First day with wide angle

[rasputin]

Decided to ignore the bank balance and went for a Tamron 11-18mm

Took a little walk in Dundee...

Yay or nay (and comments) appreciated on these :

1.


2.


3.

[CivicMan]

HDR!!!! Lovin' it!

[CVP]

I do like the last one, looks natural

Chris

[hiltonig]

like number 2 , what the camera body ??

[Snapper7]

What program are you doing the HDR in?

[D4VE 3LL]

Great little set, hard to pic a fave but they do look brill in subtle HDR

[john185k]

Well done!

Maybe something for FG interest in the first one, like a rope or something but really good efforts

[4hero]

Excellent shots for the first day, can't wait to see day two

[paul911]

No 2 for me too

[Major Bloodnok]

Number 2's good, but it looks like there's some nasty chromatic aberration over on the right, there.

[Rofly Lollers]

Yay
Yay, and...
Yay again!

Great pics.

[cirks]

I'll go against the grain and say that I prefer 3 BUT 2 would be great IMHO if there was a bit more of the structure included (like in 3) and it didn't look like the pillars were tilting/tipping backwards at the middle right (wide angle and photo angle issue I think). Great for first day though.

Edited by cirks on Tuesday 10th November 10:58

[rasputin]

Thanks all

Camera body is Sony A300 and HDR was done in Photomatix.

[plg101]

Very nice. No.2 for me, but all well executed. Obviously HDR, but well balanced.

[Yellabelly]

rasputin said:

Thanks all

Camera body is Sony A300 and HDR was done in Photomatix.

Did you bracket the shots or HDR off a single shot? topical!

YB

PS nice set, with relatively subtle HDR, unlike some Germany based specialists!

[clk55pete]

paul911 said:

No 2 for me too

+1

[rasputin]

Yellabelly said:

Did you bracket the shots or HDR off a single shot?

Bracketed manually in 'M' mode. The A300 only has an auto bracketing range of +/- 0.7EV so is not much use.

[Established 1984]

Nice first shots.

2 is my choice aswell, but think it'd be even better with a panoramic crop removing the muddy bank in the lower right hand corner. (I scrolled up to remove that section of the picture from the screen and preferred it)

Also I can't help noticing that some of the rigging runs of the rhd side of pic 1 whilst there is loads of space on the left.

[Snapper7]

Hi rasputin

Thanks for the pointer to PhotoMatix. It has made you picture look really nice, not that I saw the originals.

I have downloaded the demo copy and was surprised when I took a perfectly nice picture and created 3x exposure versions of it. HDR Imported them and messed around a number of times in the PhotoMatix control Panel.

Strangely I only managed to turn nice pictures in to bad pictures. No matter what I did, my original pictures looked much better. I watched the video a number of times as well.

Any tips

Edited by Snapper7 on Tuesday 10th November 16:15

[rasputin]

I haven't managed to get really good results by splitting a single shot. Always looks "overdone" and very noisy.

Any of the unprocessed pictures either had a black bridge or blown white sky - there's no way I could have captured enough detail with just one picture!