For the One Week Only challenge #2 - HDR this time. I had intended to take this picture yesterday (3rd) but the weather was so grey and miserable I left it till today. My camera doesn't have an automatic HDR function so it was a case of varying exposure shots and then merging.
plenty of water under the bridge - looks like a beautiful day to take this photograph and the HDR has worked just fine - presumably adding some detail to the sky.
Oh - you have ended up with such a wonderful image. Looking at this makes the definition of HDR make sense. I have to try to do it the same way you have - but mine have been nowhere near as effective as this. Practice makes perfect .... will keep trying. Actually - I just read your intro again - do you take multiple images that you merge - I've just had one image to start with and have edited it differently and then merged. To make your images match so perfectly do you use a tripod and just change your settings in between each photo? (Still haven't acquired a decent tripod!! Drat!!) Cheers Rob
@robz Glad you liked this one Rob. I do use a tripod for these. Exposure compensation stops I find very subtle. I did find it easier taking one photo then overexposing one version, underexposing the next and then merging and erasing the bits I didn't want in Elements. The exposure compensation process can be quite fiddly and I'm quite impatient. If you do try exposure compensation you will need a photo editing programme that will merge them for you. In Elements It's under Enhance/Photomerge/Photo Exposure. You can get away without a tripod if you can steady the camera as Elements has an Align feature if the pics don't marry up properly. Hope this helps!
@fbailey Thanks so much for the info FB - I think I can convert most of this into stuff can do with my camera (it has an exposure bias which I think is the same thing) and I can then merge the images by partial transparencies - but I think I will need at least a small tripod. Will give it a go -many thanks again!!
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