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This is the second of the HDR shots I mentioned yesterday and, as I also mentioned, I much prefer this one to yesterday's. It's a shot of the same abandoned shop as yesterday – the 'surgical steel navel bars' sign in the window appears in both – but I've gone for a very different feel with this one: an almost painterly look rather than the dark and dismal look of yesterday's.

One of the things I like most about HDR imagery is that it gives you the opportunity to explore a whole range of ways of representing what is essentially the same scene. For example, I could have easily produced a straight shot of this shop, but by using this technique instead I was able to produce an image with much the same degree of contrast overall, but localised to different areas of the image.

Anyway, enough waffle – tell me what you think.

Oh, and I recommend you try this one with the black theme.

 
3x2 + HDR + urban
comment by m at 07:52 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

I must get one done!
Great post Armageddon feel

comment by Shane Crawford at 08:25 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

Phenomenal!

comment by Bydem at 08:54 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

Unbeliveable. Are you a magician? :) I love it.

comment by Lightseeker at 09:12 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

I've got to agree that this one is the better interpretation. Whilst yesterday's was good it was perhaps too dark; the views into the interior add to this one.

comment by Jacob Davis at 09:50 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

The colors and lighting produced by this kind of work is just incredible. Love the picture.

comment by dfp at 10:08 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

I love this! It actually looks like a screenshot from a computer game like resident evil or something!

comment by Ben at 10:16 PM (GMT) on 26 March, 2008

This is very cool. Are you doing these by processing each of the bracketed shots separately before merging them? Or merging the straight shots and then tweaking the resulting image? Regardless: Very Cool.

comment by Navin Harish at 07:46 AM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

Cool shot. Love the colours

comment by Roger at 11:41 AM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

Its superb David and looking forward to the tutorial....

Rog

comment by Mark at 11:47 AM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

Very nice shot David, but you know, I'm not sure if I'm a HDR fan. It seems to be a very difficult look to get 'right' and all too often they are overly 'processed'. I've tried both Photoshop CS3 and Photomatix without much success so I'm really looking forward to your tutorial as your shots strike a very effective balance between realism and 'that HDR look'.

comment by Denis at 12:06 PM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

Technically superb, but HDR gives always the same effect....

comment by M a d . P h o t o . W o r l d at 01:19 PM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

For once i think the painterly style works, normally it gets a bit to soft or fuzzy for my taste.
If you want to get peoples attention the painterly style always does the job :)

comment by mal at 02:58 PM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

fantastic image. There is so much to entertain the eye with reflections and all these geometrics to. mal

comment by akcaoglu at 06:02 PM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

wuu great post. very cool.

comment by djn1 at 08:11 PM (GMT) on 27 March, 2008

Thanks all.

comment by bryan k. at 02:13 AM (GMT) on 28 March, 2008

the color atmosphere and diffusion are great in this one, but i think i prefer the bolder composition of the previous day's pic. but both are great!

comment by alexandru savu at 10:08 AM (GMT) on 30 March, 2008

Smooth photo.

comment by Georg Tavonius at 11:35 PM (GMT) on 13 April, 2008

This is a really great shot. And a very interessting perspective of this shop, too.
Really great work!