4 RAW exposures. I'd shot 5, but one got tossed out from camera shake. I converted them to TIF, as photomatix gives me no ability to adjust white balance and this building had a serious yellow cast from the nighttime lighitng. One of the RAW files was converted a second time at a lighter exposure to replace the blurred one.
A lot of selective editing to keep the building white, while enhancing the gold colored trim.
I expect this will perform mediocre in this challenge, as it is not the brightly colored, heavily tonemapped eye candy that most expect from HDR. I really like it, however. Using the HDR techniques, I was able to pull in a lot of detail and sense of dimension. Success will be measured by the kind of feedback I get in comments.
Anticipated critiques:
-Does not look like HDR
-Not colorful enough
Post-challenge notes:
Probably got slammed a bit by the crowd that want to see obvious use of HDR. I suppose if I'd applied some more tonemapping, it might have averaged higher, but my objective with this was to use HDR in a more natural manner, not to score high. Still did pretty darn good, IMO. This is one I am pleased with and proud of, regardless of anyone else's opinion.
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I think a lot of people expected the typical scenery/waterscapes that DID grace the front page ribbons but, I think this was a brilliantly done shot! Pat yourself on the back for it! :)
I thought this was good. I gave it a 7. I thought you did a fabulous job with extended the depth of detail. And I like that it did not look all topazy :D
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