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Old 12-05-2007   #1 (permalink)
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We had some great entries for this contest!

Worm324 and I are proud to announce the winners of the HDR contest.

First prize winner,Bob Stothfang with:



Second prize winner,Igloves with:



These people achieve a copy of Photomatix Pro, kindly donated by HDRSOFT.

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congratulations gentlemen...

extraordinary work!

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Very well done and congrates!!

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Both beautiful images and well deserved. Congratulations!
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Great images. Way to go guys!
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Gorgeous images. Really great job.
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Thanks folks, it was a fun contest.

In the other thread about the contest someone suggested that they would like to see the "before" shot(s) that were used to make the final HDR image. As a reponse to that request I have posted a composite of the five images below.

My photo of "Sunrise on Haleakala", on the island of Maui, Hawaii was a five image sequence that I ran through the trial version of Photomatix. The composite sequence runs from left to right and top to bottom -2, -1, 0, +1, +2.

I had a bit of trouble with the shrub in the right foreground as it was quite windy. I let Photomatix attempt to reduce the ghosting artifacts and it did reduce them somewhat.

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Bob has set a nice example, are there more people willing to share their original images?
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sure.

composites: 5 exposures -2 to +2
taken with my 100 dollar wal-mart canon digital POS.







i used photoshop CS3 for the HDR merge and skipped the tone mapping (opting for standard adjustments)
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in retrospect, i might not have cropped quite as much. and i would have realigned the horizon line a bit.

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Thanks for the kind words.

Mine was an Handheld shot from the bridge at Victoria Embankment, London
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handheld?! wowza!

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Congrats, this was a fine contest.
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Highly Dramatic Results.....good work and a great job folks! Congratulations!

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Congratulations.. Beautiful work
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handheld?! wowza!

I wholeheartedly 2nd your wowza
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