• Sterick Building
  • Morgan Keegan Tower
  • 100 North Main (tallest building in Memphis at 131m (430 ft) & 37 floors)
  • 1st Tennessee Bank Building
  • One Commerce Square (Sun Trust building)
  • 99 Tower Place
  • 88 Union Center (Memphis Business Journal Building)
  • AutoZone Corporate Headquarters I don't know what this building is, but I like it. I want to take some close up photos.

Memphis Skyline HDR [Mantiuk]

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Memphis skyline in the late afternoon sun viewed from across the Mississippi River.

Does anyone else find it ridiculous that it took around 5 or 6 hours to process these photos? I don't mean the software rendering time was that long, I mean that it took me 5 or 6 hours to play with settings in my software until I got a result I liked.

I uploaded 3 tonemapped versions of this HDR shot. One is more realistic, but lacking in definition, one looks more like a watercolour and is highly contrasting. This one is in between. I could not decide which one I liked, I hope you will view all three and let me know which one you like the most.

This image is created from 13 exposures and is tonemapped using the Perceptual Framework for Contrast Processing of High Dynamic Range Images by Rafal Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel in QTPFSGUI.

Pregamma=0.6
Contrast mapping=0.3
Saturation factor=1

See a map depicting how I got to the location where I took this photo.

Some of the tall buildings that can be seen in the skyline.

100 North Main (tallest building in Memphis at 131m (430 ft) & 37 floors)
Morgan Keegan Tower
One Commerce Square (Sun Trust building)
1st Tennessee Bank Building
Sterick Building
99 Tower Place
88 Union Center (Memphis Business Journal Building)
AutoZone Corporate Headquarters

kentongranny, LindenAsh, nomaddreamer, and 5 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  1. ~ Ana Gabriela 68 months ago | reply

    this was voted a hit
    wonderful landscape! amazing colors

  2. what fireflies were meant to do [deleted] 68 months ago | reply

    ** This was voted a hit from Hit, Miss, Maybe, WHY? ** It doesn't appeal to me too much, but technically its great.

  3. Upas Nair [deleted] 68 months ago | reply

    This was voted a maybe/HIT from www.flickr.com/groups/himima-why/

  4. Rodrigo_Soldon 52 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Wonderful photos for the world Pls post 1-comment 3_Contest VOTE, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  5. RareElvisPresley com 40 months ago | reply

    Nice pic !

    thnx

    www.rareelvispresley.com

  6. SheldonPhotography 39 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called American Skylines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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