Yani Dubin
Skradinski Buk
Skradinski Buk waterfall in Krka national park, Croatia.
This panorama is composed from 15 images (5 brackets of 3 images each). I combined these into an HDR Pano using Lightroom, and processed the resulting RAW file (dng) in AuroraHDR, made some slight adjustments in Luminar (a first for me), cropped the image in half so I could save it (currently Skylum tools limit export to images less than 15000 pixels wide, so 25000 was too much) - but this was easily automatically combined using Photoshop's built in loading into stack script, where I added some sharpening using Lumenzia, some final touch up, and here it is.
Unfortunately being such high resolution, it isn't possible to convey the detail on social media. The 20,000 pixel cropped result is 100x the pixel count currently supported by Facebook/Flickr, meaning only 1 in 100 pixels make it to the output image - this means any output sharpening can only be a token effort because entire chunks of detail were lost in the downsizing. I already struggle with a 50MP pixel camera when I fill the frame and want to convey the detail I've captured on social media - already a struggle retaining just 1 in 16 pixels, but this really is an illustration of how current social media platforms prevent sharing of the detail in images.
In restrospect, HDR was not really needed here - I'd come down the valley and composed the shot using a telephoto lens allowing me to crop out the sun which was spreading light onto foliage a bit above this scene, so even my brightest exposure is not overexposed, meaning I likely gain no useful information from the darker exposures. I still use the extended data if I have it, regardless of whether it provides any benefit.
Skradinski Buk
Skradinski Buk waterfall in Krka national park, Croatia.
This panorama is composed from 15 images (5 brackets of 3 images each). I combined these into an HDR Pano using Lightroom, and processed the resulting RAW file (dng) in AuroraHDR, made some slight adjustments in Luminar (a first for me), cropped the image in half so I could save it (currently Skylum tools limit export to images less than 15000 pixels wide, so 25000 was too much) - but this was easily automatically combined using Photoshop's built in loading into stack script, where I added some sharpening using Lumenzia, some final touch up, and here it is.
Unfortunately being such high resolution, it isn't possible to convey the detail on social media. The 20,000 pixel cropped result is 100x the pixel count currently supported by Facebook/Flickr, meaning only 1 in 100 pixels make it to the output image - this means any output sharpening can only be a token effort because entire chunks of detail were lost in the downsizing. I already struggle with a 50MP pixel camera when I fill the frame and want to convey the detail I've captured on social media - already a struggle retaining just 1 in 16 pixels, but this really is an illustration of how current social media platforms prevent sharing of the detail in images.
In restrospect, HDR was not really needed here - I'd come down the valley and composed the shot using a telephoto lens allowing me to crop out the sun which was spreading light onto foliage a bit above this scene, so even my brightest exposure is not overexposed, meaning I likely gain no useful information from the darker exposures. I still use the extended data if I have it, regardless of whether it provides any benefit.