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Per, triple exposure to capture the tunnel detail as well as taking a separate exposure set just for the parade ground and street beyond, then blended the latter into the HDR image.

Hsving grown up living in the "burra Bungalow" at Deundi, in Sylhet, I found these few images very evocative of my childhood.

I am curious to know which garden it is that the bungalow belongs to.

Beautiful combination of textures here.

Congratulations on setting up such an eye-catching composition. Animals will always bring in the crowds, but you have achieved an extra something with your work here.

The shadows cast by the Honesty Plant's seeds from a downlighter

caught my eye, and it seemed to have the makings of a reasonable

composition.

Any comments would be welcome.

Magnificent capture of the light and tones

A study of tulips manipulated with Redfield's Fractalius. Any thoughts

on this program?

Beautifully executed - great example of HDRI used to the best effect

Using permanent downlighters in a picture gallery, particularly in

semi-darkness, seems to be particularly effective in engaging the

viewer...

Fred and Rumen - thank you for taking the time to comment.

The strong light on the right is from a streetlight. I could have darkened it in CS4 but I didn't want to mess with the image. The garage is rather obtrusive, but it forms part of the entire G-shaped building. We could crop it, but those who know the architecture would wonder where half the building went! The trees in the courtyard would make a good cut-off otherwise.

I would consider either using a gradation filter or software like HDRPhotostudio to darken the highlights, in this case the sky. Photoshop CS4 or Lightroom2 will have facilities for darkening skies in imitation of gradation filters. Have you checked out that route?

The wall capture is perfect in terms of tone and detail.

Night images by moonlight and long exposures can lead to interesting

results.

Any views on this particular image?

Full moon and Christmas nearly coincided this year - a stroll outside

demonstrated the enormous reflectivity of the snow-covered landscape

under a full moon.

Taken from a hilltop from about four miles away, in early evening,

with mist settling over the Cromarty Gap, below the smoke trails.

Triple exposure, with 2EV separation...I was attracted by the

juxtaposition of the misty mountains in the distance and the vivid

streaks of colour from the smoke trails against the clouds.

Any thoughts on whether this would be better cropping out more of the

blue loch, or does the water background add to its impact?

It is the prime purpose of HDR processing to provide light in our darkness!

No normal photograph would have captured such a wide dynamic range, so it is unlikely we will have seen a non-HDR photograph of the same scene which provides that detail or colour in the lower portion of the image. Of course the photographer could have adjusted the colour settings as well, but I think what we are seeing is the effect of HDR processing.

It is a great example of what HDR can do in a high contrast situation.

You have avoided the all-too-common over-wrought image which is seen frequently by users first using Photomatix.

In choosing a high contrast situation and I suspect in keeping the "Light smoothing" option in the Details Enhancer as "Very High" you have produced an example of how HDR can enhance an image in a high contrast situation without looking like something out of a comic strip. Sadly www.hdrcreme.com is full to bulging with gross examples of the beginner's art, when it could have been so much better a collection.

Let's hope that those of us using it on occasion for high contrast imagery can set a better example on Photo.net!

Do you happen to remember what settings you did use, how many exposures, and at what EV separations?

Does the youngster skipping into the image add or detract from the

composition?

This was taken in the Shaikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi a $5 Billion

creation of white marble and precious inlaid stones, the largest

persian carpet in the world, and a bewildering array Swarovski crystal

chandeliers, all linked by a flower petal motif...