Challenge66: Abundance Here you can see plenty of "lots": lots of light: because it's an enhanced HDR...

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Challenge66: Abundance

Here you can see plenty of "lots":

lots of light: because it's an enhanced HDR image
lots of darkness above: because it has been captured by night
lots of buildings: because it's one of Berlins bigger and newer places, full of architecture in the modern style
lots of yellow tone: because of the overwhelming lightshow and the HDR tonemapping (Drago)

If you like it I have more experimental HDR pictures here:

http://gallery.dicke-aersche.de/Photo-Alben/008000_HDR/001000_Experimente/

All of those pictures have been done with three shots: 1 normal, 1 underexposed and 1 overexposed image. Afterwards I combined them in different ways, there are lots of tone mappings (Haha, lots of! Again!) and also some ideas about exposure blending of the three pictures with gimp.

I think HDR pictures will become my new favourite hobby...

Comments on this photo:

Jan 27 2007 01:42 GMT losp

Great to play with your GIMP (I'm ignorant of it) on
integrating "normal + underexposed + overexposed"
fotos into one final foto image .. Beautiful HDR creations
and best wishes in your great march forward in HDR fotoing
Yes, THANKS => so much more can be learnt from your
FT and your gallery uploadings. Have a great weekend, UWP. ~~

Jan 27 2007 20:50 GMT Ivojass

..So Berlin is also not-finished?:) We have a proverb that Riga is never finished (of course it is some decades behind), here you build new and new again!
Cool techniques to gain such images, quite like it here, although it bear some surreal feeling with it.

Jan 27 2007 22:24 GMT uwp

losp: This picture here has not been done by gimp, it has been done with other tools (pfstools etc.). Just for information...:)

Jan 27 2007 22:27 GMT uwp

Ivojass: Berlin is still in the building process, yes. You know after the wall came down a lot of buildings had been built and they're not finished I'd say the next 10 or 20 years. And you're absolutely right: HDR pictures often looks artificial. Of course, they have to. Because you combine several pictures to one which you can never see with your eyes. So there's more information. But there's also one loss: shadows. This will always be surreal but I really like those kind of pictures.

Feb 07 2007 02:04 GMT bojtorjan

Best of luck to you!

Feb 07 2007 19:45 GMT PhotoPro PRO

beautiful shot!

Congrats on the challenge!

Feb 08 2007 01:13 GMT Mafernandes

nice picture, congrats

Feb 08 2007 09:19 GMT benthalo

Great pic mate congrats :)

Feb 08 2007 23:07 GMT uwp

Oh, wow! Thanx! And thanx to the fotothing team! Maybe I should really stay with HDR? :))))

Feb 19 2007 00:51 GMT bojtorjan

Congratulations....well deserved Udo! :o)