[16:10] HDR Sunset in Spring (Collection)

[richardsim7]

Edit: Decided to post all 3 images

One of my first HDR attempts. Sorry Pandya :p

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[Silver_Guy]

Wow what an awesome photo! I really love using HDR for my photo sets, really add's something special so some photo's

[richardsim7]

Thanks, yeah it really brings out some shots, it was perfect for this sunset :)

[-KJ]

Thanks for the great WP's, Richard!

Do you happen to have it at 1920 x 1200? Thanks :)

[richardsim7]

Well they're at 2560x1600 which is just a bigger size of 1920x1200 (same 16:10 ratio) so it should scale down nicely ;)

[The_Wizard]

They're amazing :) I really like the first one.

[richardsim7]

Thanks :)

Yeah they're all subtly different, I'm not sure which I prefer! :laugh:

[bruNo_]

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AMAZING!

[ViZioN]

Pretty cool pics, thanks for sharing (Y)

[REM2000]

very good pic's

[DavidM]

Using the third picture as my wallpaper now, very nice! Thanks for sharing!

Wow, browsed your gallery and Breaking Dusk and West Pier at Sunset are beautiful as well, I'm going to have a tough time deciding which to use. I think I'll have to set them up to rotate!

Thank again!

[andrew_f]

This is Brighton / Hove yeah? Great shots!

[Angel Blue01]

Wow

[crazzyyfool]

What camera you using and what software for the post-processing?

[david]

I want to see the original! Curious to see before and after.

[Grunt]

Pretty frikken awesome richardsim7!

Why are you sorry to Pandya? Everyone knows HDR is the only way to get awesome looking photos. :p

In fact, Pandya...if you read this... take some hints for your own work. :rofl:

[hdood]

What camera you using and what software for the post-processing?

I know you were asking him, but I've done a bit of this with just regular point and shoot Canon Ixus cameras running CHDK. You enable "bracketing in continuous mode" with a Tv of 1 and then use the regular custom timer mode to take, say, five pictures with a few seconds delay (so a shaky hand doesn't affect it.)

Have the camera on a tripod, push the button, and leave it to do its thing. You'll end up with five pictures starting at 0, and then increasing/decreasing by 1 for each shot taken. Of course you can use whatever Tv or Av (if supported by the camera) values you want.

Personally I then use Photomatix Pro for combining and tone mapping the pictures.

Anyway, this is the hobo way of doing HDR. The quality will obvious depend on the camera, like normal pictures. Ultra-crisp HD wallpapers from a point-and-shoot might be pushing it.

[watchthisspace]

The second one is now *When it's downloaded* my new wallpaper, those are spectacular!