Re: The Official non-auto Image thread Quote:
Originally Posted by clevermax IMO, these two pictures can be directly achieved from a single RAW without processing HDR. |
Agree. My reason for taking an HDR is if there are enough refections in water or a dramatic sky which wont come out clean on a single RAW. There can be more reasons. But these two come to me first hand.
On top it, I like the HDR to be mild for landscapes. I dont want it to go over the top. Hence the one I posted looked like a normal landscape. May be it might be possible to extract the same from a single RAW, but when I snapped I was not too sure and hence went with a bracketed shot. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gandhi Even in this photos I feel that the shadows could've been easily recovered (depending on the camera sensor) with one RAW exposure. The bright areas doesn't have that much detail anyway compared to original exposure. |
I have tried single RAW enhancement to lift the dynamic range. In most cases for me the image always gave me highly processed look. While I always looked for the milder tones.
This image for example I shot with cell phone and tried an HDR enhancement to extract the details. 
Last edited by ampere : 2nd July 2013 at 00:31.
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