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Photo of the day – HDR Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln Memorial - HDR from HDR Efex Pro 2 - ©TimeLine Media

Below are photos of the Lincoln Memorial with some examples of how you can develop a photo in different ways. Firstly is just from one exposure with adjustments in Lightroom. In other words, a ‘normal’ processing from out of the camera.

Lincoln Memorial with only Lightroom adjustments - ©TimeLine Media
Memorial with only Lightroom adjustments – ©TimeLine Media

The other images were processed in HDR programs from 9 separate exposures. In summary, the images were bracketed at different exposures. Afterwards. these images were used as sources for HDR programs.

Memorial - HDR from Photomatix 5 - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial – HDR from Photomatix 5 – ©TimeLine Media

This shows not only the possibilities with processing images in one program, but the amount of information available in combining exposures really opens up a lot of options! The HDR processing started from photo realistic presets.

Memorial - HDR from HDR Efex Pro - ©TimeLine Media
Memorial – HDR from HDR Efex Pro – ©TimeLine Media

Many of the “artistic” or “surrealistic” presets were a little off the chart for me. Especially with a subjects like the Lincoln Memorial, going too far on the processing would have really taken away from the image. Let me know which of these came out the best. If you have any tips for processing HDR images, or post processing architecture or landscape images, let me know!

Lincoln Memorial - HDR from HDR Efex Pro 2 - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial – HDR from HDR Efex Pro 2 – ©TimeLine Media 

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