The subject this week is the interior of the Riga Cathedral, the largest medieval church in the Baltics. Both our HDR photos below are derived from the same three bracketed photos; They've just been processed differently. First, the unpromising-looking bracketed photos I took from the back of the church:
And now, the combined HDR versions:
Simple difference in the two HDRs: In the bottom version, we gave the top version its own layer in Photoshop CS5, duplicated it, used Filter -> Stylize -> Find Edges to define lines, then blended the two layers together.
Whichever you prefer, both are easily much more vivid representations of the interior of the Rigas Doms than that single properly-exposed snapshot at the top.The HDR software is Photomatix, still a $99 download.
Examine much bigger versions of the two HDRs side by side (Photo 1/Photo 2) on EarthPhotos.com.
Comments