Comments on: World Wide Panorama – Elevation

By: Chris Glick

Chris Glick — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:35:23 +0000

Sometimes HDR images strike me as too cartoony. The cars waiting at the light give me that feeling, although HDR makes the clouds and parked cars carry the grim feeling of requiring a dash home on the motorcycle before the clouds unleash a torrential downpour (or not, as continental weather is wont to do).

The halo effect I see in much of HDR work I’ve viewed influences my viewing as well. Here, positively with the cat and sign, but perhaps less so with the tall buildings and pole, as if they have spectral twins beside them.

Anyway, I’m glad I had the chance to view it!

By: Sergi

Sergi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:15:25 +0000

Tottaly agree with you, Yuval. When I want realistic images I use enfuse, too. It’s a very good tool for this and also a kind of HDR in the pure way because enfuse also captures in an image a High Dynamic Range, not possible with just one capture even with a very expensive camera.

I think in enfuse just like watch in a picture what you saw in the reflex camera finder :-)

About tonemapping, It’s the same ever… someone want it totally unreal, someone want a non-agressive tonemapping.

Here I have som HDR and Enfused pictures.
http://www.fotoshdr.net/

By: Caroling Geary

Caroling Geary — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:18:15 +0000

I loved the cat on high. Elevated me. I found the halo around half the skyline puzzling. It would have been easy to paint the sky to building edge and half the pano is that way. I didn’t get the point of the efect. Perhaps it was to emphasize? Of course, with late editing, you might be changing it as I write. In any case it is a fine entry and story.

By: Seb Perez-D

Seb Perez-D — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:41:01 +0000

I like the fact that you need to look into the pano to see why this is an elevation – I’m sorry that your first plans didn’t work out. However I find the over-tonemapiness too much – as with your panorama inside the National Assembly.

By: Milko

Milko — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:06:07 +0000

I like it. It has a surreal sensation. Surrealism out of realism.
One is within the other, its just not visible to everybody.
Who says which 24 bits to use out of 96, which a true hdr makes available?You, your impression.

I could have sworn the cat on the roof was pasted, but no it was intended by Toyota….Plan S as in ‘Serendipity’ worked well for you to illustrate elevation. Bravo.

Cheers

By: Mark Fink

Mark Fink — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:40:21 +0000

I read your saga, Plan C et al…, and think you did a great job with the circumstances that were presented. That is a very DRAMATIC image. I like the way you pushed HDR in a direction that is more artistic rather than literal. The sky especially was WOW!