I did see your son, but we didn't speak. I liked your photo, did you use that Luminosity technique I showed you to get that result as it looked a little HDR.. I didn't leave early as I enjoyed sinking the free champagne . :P I understand my photo will also be displayed in the new offices... Do you k...

I entered the Competition. I was fortunate enough to come as a runner up.

Were you the Michael Farley that won it??

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Simon

Looks lovely Mike!!

Glad it worked for you!

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Simon

Here's another one using the same technique...


Piccadilly 2 by Simon Clarkson Photography, on Flickr

The original of this looked really flat initially..

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That's good to hear Mike...

I also found the results better if you changed to Sepia instead of B&W ....

Its also nice as you can still adjust the layers contrast, saturation etc etc

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Simon

As much as HDR has its place, I have very much gone off it. When its done correctly on the correct subject matter it looks fantastic. I have recently been shown another way of post editing which is very easy and produces similar tone mapping results. I import an image into photoshop, convert it in S...

I believe Adobe photoshop CS6 already has this feature.. If you choose the Merge to HDR option there is also a function to remove ghost's (a tick box) which sounds like the same thing.

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I guess HDR is a bit like marmite, you either love it or hate it! That said HDR looks awesome when it's done properly and tastefully.

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It was done from one single photo which I made multiple exposures of. I did it in CS6 through bridge which has a Merge photos in HDR function.

HDR, is something I previously haven't liked! I generally find it either overdone or so unrealistic it doesn't look like a photograph.. :? Anyway I had a go at doing last night. I haven't done it properly as I took a single photograph from my database and produced 4-5 other copies of it at different...