HDR Sheep

[VanessaS]

My first attempt at HDR. S/he was very cooperative.


Sheepy by Vanessa1969, on Flickr

[Colin Southern]

Hi Vanessa,

It looks more like an ultra tone-mapped image - not an HDR image.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Vanessa,

Colin's reply relates to the terminology.

As you may know; HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, generally this means where the scene dynamic range exceeds what the camera is capable of capturing - there is nothing in this shot which makes that the case.

I suspect you have edited the shot using something mis-labelled "HDR" but actually applying an ultra-tone-mapped process to it.

Some like this effect, obviously you do - and there's nothing wrong in that
Others don't, e.g. I prefer my shots looking more natural

I see, from the Flickr meta data, you edited with PSE 11.

Talking of the image, if mine I wouldn't have cropped quite so close, but I suspect you were trying to exclude other heads and legs of nearby sheep - in such situations, I might leave the crop wider, then clone over the intruding body parts, easily done with PSE 11.

Hope that helps,

[VanessaS]

I cropped it in Photoshop because, at the time, I was using the trial version of Photomatix and it applied a watermark - but it is stitched using Photomatix first. Then cropped using Photoshop.