octo-boots' photostream

another shot of the tower bridge from my stay in London. 3 exp hdr sigma 10-20, nikon d300.

another view of St. Paul's from my recent stay in London. I used a similar technique to the one i described in this photo:

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Update: My first photo to make it to explore! #158

I used a (i think) pretty clever technique for this photo: I took 5 exposures handheld, since i wasn't carrying my tripod with me (used the continuous highspeed shutter mode and machine-gunned it). As you can see, though, there's a lot of movement in the scene.

So what I did was I processed the multiple exposures in photomatix (i only used 3 of the original 5 to minimize alignment issues) which turned out well, but obviously with a lot of ghosting from the people, busses etc.

Then, i took one of the exposures that i used and made a single exposure HDR with that (converted it to 3 tif files before running it through photomatix). I tonemapped this one just concentrating on making the people look good (the rest of the image looked pretty bad actually).

Lastly, i took the two tonemapped files, aligned them in photoshop with the multiexposure on top and masked in the sections that needed ghosting repair from the single exposure hdr. After a couple other photoshop adjustments it was done. Hope you find that helpful!