Well it wasn't just me [] Thanks for everybody!


I tried to recreate a more natural picture, as the scene was in reallife. It's something like this:





In my opinion this is more my favorite type of HDR. As you can see this one also looks a bit unnatural. That's purely because of the high dynamic range. There is also a small increase of colors due to the HDR. But not saturated/pushed.


Indeed like wickerprints says..there are essentialy 2 types of HDR. "Natural" HDR like my second picture and artsy HDR as I like to call it that pushes the unnatural look of an HDR to an even more unnatural but more colorfull picture.


Just like he says, I don't vote one group over the other either. Essentially there is only one group called HDR, with a second group that I like to call adjusted HDR. What I wanted to point out is that the second isn't the seential idea of HDR, but it can make beautifull pictures. Personally I think they're over-saturated a lot of time. I like the more natural look.


Good luck with making your own HDRs! Try Photomatix software. You can download a free trial whit a very annoying watermark or buy or ###### it [:P] I believe this program is more userfriendly then photoshop, so I would recommend just to try it out sometime.


Good luck!


Jan


Also don't hessitate to ask any other questions. I learn everyday as well! There are a lot of really smart people here that can tell you more details than you might even want to know[:P]