Adventures In HDR & Tone Mapping Photo Gallery by Doug Cruden at pbase.com

Adventures In HDR & Tone Mapping

I've just started experimenting with HDR and tone mapping - the images here are the results of my labours. I'm a bit in the dark about the whole process, and am learning as I go - quite often, I've arrived at a pretty good end image, but haven't really understood how I got there!

I'd be grateful for all advice, comments and critiques, either directly here or via PM

Overlooking Mine Hill	Sunset Over The Ward of Redland	Wool Church	Old Bridge	St Magnus Interior
Loch of Swannay	Flotsam	Rollright Stones	Sunset	Parish Church
Cotswold Glade 1	Back Alley	Spring Wolds	Sunday Morning Splendour	Cotswold Castle
Out of The Woods	Cotswold Cottage	Quiet Corner	Towards	Over The Fields
Simplicity	In Spate	Sunday Morning Splendour 2	Sunday Morning Stroll 1	Sunday Morning Stroll 2
Sunday Morning Stroll 3	Spring Morning	Churchyard Gate	You've Been Framed!	Cotswold Church
Ford	On The Windrush Way	Ruined	Autumnal Colours	Arboreal Frame
Markers	Cotswold Glade HDR 2	Seried Ranks	Messing About On The River	Sunflower HDR
Country Lane	Uphill Struggle	Illuminated	Late Spring Sunshine	Plain Worship
Muddy Lane	The Rich Earth	Sleepy Hollow	Underneath The Arches...	Slow Stream
Hillside View	Thrown Open	Reflections	No Sunbathing Today!	Heavy Skies Over Gruinard Bay
Cantilevered Wonder	Watching Out	Neolithic Viewpoint	Hidden	Dusk
Rusted	Earth, Water & Sky	Kyle of Durness	Evening Calm	Blue Sunset 1
Blue Sunset 2	Blue Sunset 3	Early Morning Neolithic	Severn Vale Topograph	Solitary
Almost Derelict	Antenn�	Cotswold Grandeur	Sudeley Worship	Sunday Morning Splendour 3
Spring Scene	Sunbeams	Gothic Arch	Paused For Thought	Early Morning View
Cleeve Hill Gate	Yesnaby Castle HDR	Hills of Hoy	Evening Colours	Road To The Hills
Misty Morning	On Hoy	Cotswold Glory	The East Banqueting House & The Coneygree	Venerable Ruins
Cotswold Wool Church	Mediterranean Harbour 1	Mediterranean Harbour 2	No Work Today	Style
East Church, Cromarty 2	Cotswold Gothic	A River Runs Through It	Quiet Backwater	Restful Place

tomr-photos		15-May-2025 13:43
I tried making a comment. It didn't go through. Anyway, some advice good or bad. Some Pbase galleries have way too much saturation in the greens. Other have too much shadow detail. Overdone can be undone. I like your efforts. I'm no expert. My efforts take a lot of time and everything is done in Photoshop.

tomr-photos		15-May-2025 13:37
Good effort and results. Advice? I'm nowhere near being an expert (you can check my attempts), but . . . some of the attempts in the galleries I've seen on Pbase have way too much saturation in the greens. Other images look like too much shadow detail. Very unnatural (I think). Other have a peculiar glow. All of my images have been processed in PHotoshop.

Guest		15-Jun-2008 03:12
Great HDR Gallery!!! It get addicting quick.

tony_england		14-Jun-2008 17:13
This is inspirational stuff Doug. gmv

Earl Misanchuk		04-May-2008 15:15
Beautiful gallery. It inspired me to do some serious learning and experimenting about HDR. Voted.

Larry & Linda Dunlap		02-Apr-2008 19:33
Fabulous material, and your treatment of it is excellent! Makes me wish I could stroll through the scenes. ~ Linda

Barri Olson		27-Mar-2008 20:59
To me, these are some of the best examples of HDR I've seen. They don't have that "forced" look as so many I've seen, included some of my own experiments. You've captured it seems more what the eye would really see, rather than the limited range the camera has in a single shot...and you've done it in a subtle and very effective way with some beautiful and well composed photos.

Bill Warren		27-Mar-2008 00:44
A great start with HDR here. Voted

Eric Pouhier		14-Mar-2008 20:53
They are great HDR, great work here !

mart senior		08-Mar-2008 10:05
fantastic gallery...v

Guest		02-Mar-2008 08:00
Beautiful work..a pleasure to review.

Guest		02-Mar-2008 07:59
Beautiful work..a pleasure to review.

Mark McBrearty		01-Mar-2008 22:05
I'm just starting to learn about HDR. Your gallery has inspired me to try and learn more. And regardless of the techniques involved, you've produced some wonderful images here!

Guest		01-Mar-2008 12:53
I like your gallery! Great images! Regards, rfu

Guest		28-Feb-2008 20:40
I´m also starting with HDR, but instead Photomatix I prefer Dynamic Photo HDR, because seems to me more accurate and you can chosse between a large range of tones. Try it. You can get a trial version for free. Instead Ninja I use Neat Image, it´s quick and accurate enough for the usual problems. Luis Ascenso

Dudy Tuchfeld		27-Feb-2008 20:29
great gallery

Mary Terry		27-Feb-2008 19:56
Very nice gallery! The sunflower and the Wool Church images are my favorite.

Geoff C		24-Feb-2008 22:26
Some nice shots here Doug - good gallery Geoff

Tomasz Dziubinski - Photography		24-Feb-2008 00:15
Great gallery, Vote.

endre novak		22-Feb-2008 22:39
nice processes.

firstbrook		18-Feb-2008 23:42
Great job on the HDR processing Doug.....very subtle, works well.

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