HDR river photo C&C welcome

[AceOfHobbes]

This is a 7 shot HDR image of the river the runs through town. One of my 1st HDR attempts.
Taken just before sunset.

I am finding the banding in the sky to be a particularly difficult problem.

[billm]

Was this hand held? I see halos around all the buildings.also a bit dark

[AceOfHobbes]

Shot on a tripod. I can see the halos too (forgot to mention that)

[rpcrowe]

I like the image. Just out of curiosity; how did you get the varied exposures required for the HDR composite and what software did you use for the compositing?

[AceOfHobbes]

I like the image. Just out of curiosity; how did you get the varied exposures required for the HDR composite and what software did you use for the compositing?

It's shot +3 to -3 (change shutter speed only) in 1 stop increments and processed with HDR EFex Pro

Edit to main post: 7 shots not 5.

This might be why I am getting the halo effect.

[Polar01]

Did you run through Adobe Raw or Lightroom first to get reduce the noise. I usually do this along with adding a little clarity while looking for dust bunnies before running through an HDR program.

Cheers:

Allan

[AceOfHobbes]

Did you run through Adobe Raw or Lightroom first to get reduce the noise. I usually do this along with adding a little clarity while looking for dust bunnies before running through an HDR program.

Cheers:

Allan

Will try that.

[AceOfHobbes]

Made some progress