After seeing darkstorm82's beautiful HDR sunset picture, I decided to try this thing myself, So I downloaded the Photomatix demo, and decided I would try to find a scene where HDR would be of a great help. So there I was at work, and these nice looking clouds presented themselves. So I decided to take a few pics and see what I get. I was rushed as I was still at work, so these were handheld.

I was using the demo version of Photomatix, hence the watermark in one image. I attempted to clone it out in the other one with limited success just to display here. I think I will buy this software. I think its worth it if you are planning on selling high contrast landscape shots in particular.

Anyway enough long winded babble. Here are the pics:





Tell me what you think of my quick and dirty HDR images.

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[Alvin]

I like the second shot. I'd like to see a bit more blue in the sky.

[dudlew]

I have only played with it for a few days now but I just couldn't help it. I tried a few other like artizen and FDR tools, but prefer the results of Photomatix.

I am posting another quick and dirty try



I need to perfect alot of things including my shooting and preparation and patience, but I see me really loving and utilising this software.

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