Duomo of Biella (Italy)

[eengelmann]

Some pictures of the Duomo of Biella (Italy).

Exif info of the pictures (lost during processing) can be found on the page http://www.milanofotografo.it/englis...0e%20monuments

All pictures are double exposures taken with a Fuji s100fs and separated by 2 stops, fused using the algorythm on the page http://www.milanofotografo.it/englishFotografiaHDR.aspx and finally optimized using Faststone.
The whole set of pictures taken in the church (17 pictures) can be found here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111930...83637389447057

[Shadowman]

Nice series, a bit dark in certain areas.

[bnnrcn]

Nice series Enrico I especially like #3 because there are no dark parts very much and nice composition I'm not an expert in photography at all, but I know that a lot of people take bracketed shots for such scenes and they combine them with HDR in order to get photos with more balanced light. May be you should try so, because your subject is really good and you can get higher quality images with this technique.

[eengelmann]

Nice series Enrico I especially like #3 because there are no dark parts very much and nice composition I'm not an expert in photography at all, but I know that a lot of people take bracketed shots for such scenes and they combine them with HDR in order to get photos with more balanced light. May be you should try so, because your subject is really good and you can get higher quality images with this technique.

You didn't read the description! I already did what you said! Each picture is a fusion of two pictures. When the contrast is very strong more pictures would be necessary, but for the moment my selfcreated algorythm allows to fuse only two pictures. In the future I will improve it so to be able to fuse more pictures and increase the dynamic range improvement!
Here the two starting pictures of the first image





and again the result for a easier confrontation:

[CBImages]

Impressive Enrico - well done.
Obviously you recognise that the shadow areas are a little too dark but the fact that you wrote your own HDR algorithm and this is just a 'work in progress' is fantastic and you are to be commended. I really hope you do continue with your project and manage to blend 3 or even 4 images with your algorithm, you may even make some money out of it.
As you are aware, a lot of the HDR software on the market doesn't produce 'realistic' imagery and some introduce a lot of digital noise into the results, so of you can overcome these problems then I'm sure you will find a niche for yourself.

Once again - well done!

[wtlwdwgn]

Nicely detailed interior shots of the church Enrico. As been said above you can try merging more images with a wider spread of exposures. HDR has a bad rep because it's often overdone but properly used it can produce fine results. Just my two cents.

[NorthernFocus]

Nice set, Enrico. What a beautiful church. And great work with the blending process without using commercial software. Well done.

[bnnrcn]

Very sorry about it Enrico, I must have missed it for some reason because I normally read explanations I would like to congratulate you on creating your own algorithm

[eengelmann]

No problem! I'm glad you like my pictures! Of course there is room for improvement!