This is from 5 1ev shots from O’Keefe Ranch in Vernon British Columbia Olympus Em1 mk3 and Panny 8-18mm
My edit
The DNG file. Even if you’re a beginner don’t be afraid to submit your edited version. No limit on editing software choice.
P7010001-hdr.dng (77.7 MB)
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I only have my Laptop and no proper display here at the moment.
Anyway:
The glow is not bad!
Libre-DT versions …
HQR on and off…slightly different detail and contrast…
I could have darkened down the whole image as well likely…
I can’t post jpeg-xl…
Its a free for all…
It will be cool to share the raw image with the best exposure (highest without clipping) to compare if the extra HDR step is worth it.
You can get close most of the time but way too much noise in the image every time I do it and de-noise can only do so much. I can post smaller dimension photos to mitigate some of the noise but then the photo loses its nice factor. People who use phones get a kick to the head when they see the same photo on a 24" + monitor.
A fantastic scene but Filmulator makes it look rather… tame and faithful to the human eye.
Exposure Comp +1.5
Highlight Rolloff Point 0.516
Highlight Crosstalk .105
Film Area 189.6 to control the radius of the local contrast effects
Drama 100
Overdrive on (oh yeah!)
White Clipping Point 0.301
Shadow Brightness 351
This look would be close to about 15-20min later once the sun started to crest over the hill.
I like your photographs. Great framing/composition!
But I struggle with HDR composites. I edit with an SDR screen - maybe that is a factor.
In this case, I find that the trees appear blurry. Maybe that is due to dynamic range and my limited editing skills, but even in your image I notice the same characteristic. But not in the single capture, so I guess there may have been a slight breeze at the time. My HDR captures suffer from that problem.
Here I did some tonal compression and applied a Kodak 2383 LUT. This particular one is intended for use in a wide color/tone space, so I placed it before AgX.
The trees are blurry as it was windy that day and DT doesn’t align images.
Someone in the fire brigade maybe?
DT edit with @thumper digital film stock preset for AgX but saturation returned to default
P7010001-hdr.dng.xmp (12.4 KB)
