Here’s another image of the Paris hotel and casino in Las Vegas taken only a few minutes before the picture I posted yesterday. Again, I feel that it works due to the blue and gold colour scheme.
This isn’t actually an HDR though it was composed using 3 different exposures of the scene. Blending was done using Photomatix “Exposure Fusion” mode to give a very realistic result.
Awesome shot. How do you interpret the shutter speed data here? I’m confused by 382932/294563 sec.
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Hey Dave, why isn’t that HDR if you used 3 seperate exposures to bring out shadow and highlight data? Sure it isn’t tone mapped in some crazy way but it sure feels like a much expanded dynamic range to me my friend.
very cool shot.
Chris, I suspect that’s some weird rounding error thing. The answer appears to be 1.3 seconds. Given that this picture was merged from 3 exposures, though, the number isn’t particularly helpful since it only tells you about one of them.
Tom, no HDR image was created in the process of making this picture. You could argue that it is an example of “DRI” since I’ve used the highlights from one image, the midtones from a second and the shadows from a third but at no point was pixel data from all 3 images used to determine an overall, 32 bit pixel value. This is more akin to layer masking in Photoshop than the real HDR/tonemapping process.