Evening Splash! (New and Improved)

I highly recommend fellow flickr stuckincustoms for any HDR references. He created a very useful tutorial at www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/ - a must for every single flickerer who is dying to do HDR. In this image I have applied his tutorial and successfully got rid of the halo effect around the tree due to photomatix processing. I also learned the powerful layer masking in photoshop.

 

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About this picture:

Retouch image by applying stuckincustoms's HDR method. Learned new thing - got rid of the annoying HALO effect around the tree.

 

This shot:

Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) using Canon EF 24-105mm F4L

 

Photomatix:

- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option

 

Photoshop:

- added a layer of curves to enhance the overall contrast

- added a layer of levels then slightly shifted the midpoint toward the left to brighten up the image

- Added a layer to enhance the yellow in image

- added a layer to enhance the blue in the sky

- applied unsharped mask in the background layer

 

You:

All comments and criticisms for improvements are welcome. Hope you like it!

 

 

Done