HDR High Dynamic Range Photography & Tone Mapping #4

Experiments in HDR (high dynamic range) Photography and Tone Mapping


Semi-rural New Mexico, taken 03/05/07 and 03/05/08 from Polvadera, NM.	The first three are again three images (the jpegs) combined as HDR then tone mapped in Photomatix. The last two are just a single jpeg tone mapped. These are examples of more extreme tone mapping (on purpose), things look rather surreal. The clouds look pretty boring in the originals, but there's loads of detail there! That's what this exercise was about, cloud detail. As for the tin cans, if you can't hide 'em, flaunt 'em :-) There were several steps of post processing for these. Basically, I took out some imperfections in the clouds, saturated and sharpened sky more, increased contrast and adjusted color selectively.