Colosseum and other HDR's from Italy

By no means all, or the best...except the Colliseum shots....I brought my 1D Mark IV, 3 lenses, and tripod with me for a 3 week tour of LOTS of Italy. And my 3 yr old, too!!! Here are a couple of samples for people to check out. the HDR's were processed with the new HDR Efex from NIK software. My opinion, it is a much better program than Photomatix...except that there are way more options for tweaking!! I think all these shots were taken with my Mark IV and Nikon 14-24G with Novoflex chipped adapter from 16-9.net. An AWESOME combination...blows my 16-35ll away(which is gone BTW).


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And a couple of non-HDR's, too. Shot with same Camera, lens combo....


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Great shots. Well done mate.





Wally

Thanks so much Wally. The quality on some of the smaller ones isn

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Hi Wally. NO, you can

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Hi Steve. I use HDR Efex as a plug-in through LR3(I could use it through CS5, too). I do just a little tweaking in LR3, then select the photos you want(I usually do 5 shot HDR), then hit export and LR3 exports them to HDR Efex. It is very user friendly(but there is a lot of sliders and such), and when your done, you hit save, and it is re-imported back into LR3 ino the same spot as the originals!! Pretty easy, really. I think you will really like it!!


Good Luck,


Gregg

Inspired me to try HDR! Great shots!

Thank you DoggieDoc...i appreciate the compliment

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Thank you DoggieDoc...i appreciate the compliment

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I assume since those are night shots, mostly, that you used longer exposure times?





Paul